24-0 Plumage of the Bearded Titmouse when young. 
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mouse, which had been found and preserved by an excellent 
bird-stuffer in that town. Thinking the three birds very 
beautiful, [ made an accurate coloured drawing of them of 
the size of life. The pretty sketch and pleasing account of 
this species, already alluded to, induced me to turn to my 
own drawing, and obser ving the remarkable difference in the 
plumage of the young sad old bird, I thought it might be 
acceptable to your Magazine, and he therefore copied, as 
accurately as possible, the original. Never having seen this 
species in their live state, I am unable to give the character, 
but as far as regards colour, my drawing will, I believe, be 
found perfectly correct. I am, Sir, &c. 
J. LAKES. 
Liskeard Vicarage, Cornwall, Aug. 15. 1829 
Description, taken 
Srom the drawing sent. 
(fig. 41.) — In the 
young bird of the year 
the bik: is orange yel- 
low; the irides bright 
yellow ; from the beak 
to the eye a_ black 
streak, but no pendent 
tuft of loose black fea- 
thers, forming a beard, 
as in the adult male; ; 
head, neck, breast, and 
under parts yellowish 
brown; chin somewhat 
lighter; back black ; 
scapulars varied with 
brown, black, and 
white; wing, prima- 
ries black edged with 
white, secondaries dark 
brown; wing coverts 
barred brown — and 
black; carpus and 
bastard wing white; centre tail-feathers and their coverts 
orange brown; outer tail-feathers graduated, black, edged 
with white; legs and toes black. The nest of the Bearded 
‘Titmouse (Part us biarmicus) is thus described in the Zoological 
Journal, vol. iii. p. 85, 86. :— “It was placed near the eround, 
being sustained only an inch or two above the surface by the 
strength of the stems of the coarse grass upon which it was 
fixed : : It was composed entirely of Gea bents, the finer ones 
