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TITMOUSE.- 



19. 



CAPE T. 



Description. 



Place and 



Manners. 



La Mefange du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Soti. Fay. fad. vol. ii. p. 206. 



pi. 115. 

 Le Petit Peuil, Buf. at/, v. p. 445. 



'THE bill in this fpecies is black: irides red: the head, 

 neck, back, belly, and wing coverts, pale cinereous grey : 

 quills black, edged with white ; tail black above and white be- 

 neath : legs black. 



This bird inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and conftructs a neft: 

 in lhape not unlike a bottle with a fhort neck : it is compofed 

 of a kind of cotton, and placed in the thickeft ihrubs. The 

 neck is narrow, and on the outfide there is a fort of additional 

 neft, ferving for the lodgment of the male, while the female fits, 

 or broods her young within. It is faid that when the female goes 

 out of the neft, the male ftrikes againft the outfide with all the 

 force of his wings, which occafions the edges of the entrance to 

 collapfe together, fo as to prevent the entrance of fuch infefts, 

 &c. as might do injury to the young in their abfence. 



20. 

 4- BEARDED T. 



Description. 



Parus biarmicus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 340. N° 12.— Scop. ann. i. N° 241.— 



Frifih. t. 8. 

 La Mefange barbue, ou le Mouftache, Sri/, em. iii. p. 567. N° 12.— 



Buf. eif. v. p. 418. pi. iS.-Pi.eal. 618. f. 1. 2. 

 Pendulus, Kram. el. p. 373. 

 Beardmanica, Albin. i. pi. 48. 

 Leaft Butcher-bird, Ediu. pi. 55. 

 Bearded Titmoufe, Br. Zool. i. N° \6j.—'Am. Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



I ZE of the Long-tailed Titmoufe, but is bigger in the body : 

 length fix inches and a quarter. Bill five lines and a half j 



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