ACREDULA ROSEA. 
(BRITISH LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE.) 
Mecistura caudata, Leach, Cat. Mamm. &c. Brit. Mus. p. 17 (1816). 
Mecistura rosea, Blyth, ed. White’s Nat. Hist. of Selborne, p. 111, note (1836). 
Mecistura longicaudata, Macgill. Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 454 (1839). 
Acredula rosea, Sharpe, Ibis, 1868, p. 300. 
Parus roseus, Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 254 (1869). 
Parus caudatus, auct. britt. passim. 
Bottle-Tom, Bottle-Tit, Long-tailed Mag, Huckmuck, Poke-pudding, Mum-ruffin, Bumbarrell. 
Figure notabiles. 
Yarr. Brit. B. 1. p. 8344; Gould, B. of Eur. i. pl. 157, et B. of Gt. Br. part 2. 
3 vertice medio laté albo, fascia utrinque nigra a basi rostri supra oculum ducté et ad nucham nigram con- 
junctaé: interscapulio toto et dorso superiore nigris: scapularibus et dorso reliquo pallidé vinaceis, 
nigricante vix notatis: supracaudalibus nigris: tectricibus alarum nigris, majoribus interioribus vinaceo 
indistincté lavatis et albido terminatis: remigibus brunneis, secundariis extts albido limbatis, dorsalibus 
latits: caudaé nigra, rectricibus quatuor centralibus baud albo terminatis, reliquis extus albo marginatis 
et intus versus apicem gradatim albis, exterioribus feré omnino albis: facie laterali albidd, regione 
auriculari nigricante striolata: gutture et pectore superiore albis, héc indistincté nigricante maculato : 
corpore reliquo subtus rosascente, abdomine medio albido lavato: subalaribus albis: rostro nigro: 
pedibus nigris : iride nigra: annulo ophthalmico aurantiaco. 
@ mari omnino similis. 
Adult Male in breeding-plumage. Crown dull white, rather broad; a black line extending from the base of 
the bill, above the eye, so as to border the crown on both sides, and joined to the nape; the whole of 
the latter, together with the interscapulary region and upper back, deep black; the scapulars and rest 
of the back dull vinaceous, with a few black markings; upper tail-coverts black; upper wing-coverts 
black, the inner greater coverts tipped with white and tinged with a slight vinaceous shade; quills 
black, the secondaries externally margined with whitish, the innermost ones more broadly bordered, 
but only on the outer web; tail black, the four middle feathers entirely so, the next just tipped with 
white on the outer web, and the rest white on the outer web and on the inner web towards the tip, 
_ gradually increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is almost entirely white; sides of the face 
dull white; the ear-coverts streaked with blackish; throat and upper part of the breast whitish, with a 
few blackish spots on the latter; rest of the under surface of the body pale vinaceous, the centre of the 
abdomen whitish; under wing-coverts whitish; bill black; feet blackish; iris dark brown; eye-ring 
orange. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0:3, wing 2:5, tail 3:6, tarsus 0°7. 
Adult Female in breeding-plumage. “Exactly similar to the adult male. 
