428 LONG-TAILED AND BEARDED TITMOUSE, ' 



G. Long-tailed, Br. Zool. i. N° 166. 



Lanius caudatas Ahltita, Faun. Suec. N" 83. — Latham, ii. 551. 



La Mefange a longue queue, De BuffoH, v. 436. — PL Enl, 502. 3. — Lev. Mus.' — 

 Bl. Mus. 



With crown white, mixed with dark grey : head furrounded 

 by a bed of black, beginning at the bafe of the bill: from 

 the hind part of the head to the rump a line of black ; feathers on 

 each fide of that line, and thofe on the breaft, a fine purplifli red : tail 

 very long and cuneiform ; black, with the interior edges of the three 

 outmofc feathers white. 

 Placi. Inhabits Sweden. Frequent, even in winter, in thickets and woods^.. 



all over Rujfia and Sibiria. Its elegant neft defcribed in the Br.. 

 Zool. i. p. 395.. . • - ■ 



H. Bearded, Br. Zool. i. N" 167. — Latham, ii. 552. 



La Mouftache, De Buffoit, v. 418.— PL Eitl. 618.— Lev. Mus.— Bl. MuSi. 



'~\^, With a fine grey head : beneath each eye a deep black triangu- 

 lar tuft of feathers : back, fides, and thighs, orange-colored t 

 fecondaries black,, edged with orange : middle of the breaft bloora- 

 . colored : tail long, cuneiform, and ferruginous. Female wants the 

 black tufts : crown of a dirty brown : outmofl: feathers of the tail 

 black ; the ends white. 

 ^LACB. Found but rarely in Schonen in Sweden. Is very common about thc- 



Cafpian and Palus Maotis, and among the ruflies of the rivers which. 

 fall into them -, but in no high latitudes in JJa, None in Sibiria^. 



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