540 



BEARDED TITMOUSE. 



Class IL 



6. Bearded, Parns. blarmicus. P. rafiis, 

 vert ice cano, cauda corpore 

 longiorc, capite barbato, 

 crisso nigro. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 570. id. Syn. iv. 552 id. 



Slip. 190. 



Lest Butcher Bird. 



Edw. av. 55. 



Bearded Titmouse. Aldr. av. 



i. tal. 48. 

 Scopoli, No. 241. 



Nest. 



La mesange barbae, gu 1« 

 moustache, Parus barbatus. 

 Brisson av. iii. 567. Hist. 

 d'ois. V. 418. PL E?il. 6I8. 



/•I.2. 

 Parus biarmlcus. Gn2. Lin. 



1011. 

 Lest Butcher Bird. Br. ZooL 



Ed. 2d. i. 165. 

 Br. Zool. 74. plate C.2. Arct. 



Zool. ii. 126. 



jlHIS species is found in the marshes near 

 Loudon : we have seen it near Gloucester ; it is 

 also frequent among the great tracts of reeds 

 near Cozvbit in Lincolnshire, where I suspect 

 it breeds. 



The nest is not accurately known.* One 

 supposed to belong to this bird was formed of 

 soft materials, and suspended from three reeds. 

 Kramer-\ says that it is built among willows, 

 or the aspen tree, from the branches of which it 



* The nest has been ascertained by Mr. Montagu, who in- 

 forms us it is of an oval form, made of white moss and lichens 

 curiously and firmly wove together with wool, covered at the 

 top, with only a small hole on the side, and lined with a prodi- 

 gious quantity of feathers. It is placed in the fork of some bush 

 or tree. Its diminutive egg is white, sparingly marked with 

 small rust-colored spots tovi'ards the larger end. Ed. 



t Latham Syn. iv. 584. 



