ACREDULA CAUDATA. 
(LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE.) 
Parus caudatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 342 (1766). 
Acredula caudata, Koch, Syst. d. Baier. Zool. p. 199 (1816). 
Paroides longicaudus, Brehm, Vog. Deutsch]. p. 470 (1831). 
Paroides caudatus, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 471 (1831). 
Mecistura caudata, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 285. 
Mecistura longicauda, id. tom. cit. p. 285. 
Mecistura pinetorum, id. tom. cit. p. 285. 
Orites caudatus, Sundev. Sv. Fog]. p. 92 (1856). 
Meésange a@ longue queue, French; la Cincia codona, Italian; Schwarzmeise, Pfannenstiel, 
German ; Stjertmes, Swedish; Halemeise, Stjertmeise, Danish ; Hantatiitinen, Finnish. 
Figure notabiles. 
Nozem. & Sepp, Nederl. Vog. i. tab. 26; Naum. Vég. Deutschl. iv. taf. 95. figs. 4,5; Kjerb. 
Orn. Dan. afb. xxili.; Schl. Vog. Nederl. i. pl. 130; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. t. 26. fig. 9; 
Sundev. Sv. Fogl. t. xv. figs. 4, 5. 
3 ad. pileo undique niveo: collo postico toto et uropygio nigris, héc \utrinque et scapularibus vinaceo-rufis, 
albido paullulum lavatis : dorso postico nigro, albo lavato: uropygio pallidé rosascente ; supracaudalibus 
nigris: tectricibus alarum nigricantibus: remigibus nigricanti-brunneis, secundariis interioribus extts 
albo limbatis, dorsalibus latits marginatis, feré omnino albis, medialiter tanttm brunneis: cauda nigra, 
rectricum exteriorum pogonio externo et pogonio interno versus apicem albis, pennis quatuor centralibus 
omnino nigris: gutture toto niveo: corpore reliquo subtus albicante, hypochondriis et subcaudalibus 
vinaceo lavatis: subalaribus niveis: rostro nigro: pedibus nigris: iride brunned, annulo ophthalmico 
flavicante. 
2 ad. mari similis. 
Juv. supra fuliginoso-niger, interscapulio laterali niveo plus minusve lavato: remigibus et rectricibus nigris, ut 
in adultis niveo limbatis: vertice niveo: pileo et collo lateralibus nigris usque ad interscapulium con- 
jJunctis: subtus niveus, hypochondriis et subcaudalibus rosascentibus: rostro nigricanti-corneo, ad 
apicem et versus rictum flavicante: pedibus flavicantibus, unguibus nigris. 
Av. horn. similis adultis, sed pileo laterali plus minusve distincté brunnescente lavato. 
Adult Male. The whole of the head snowy white; hinder part of the neck and interscapulary region deep 
black, becoming slightly washed with white on the lower portion; sides of the back and scapulars deep 
vinous red, slightly washed with whitish on the lower portion; lower part of the back and rump pale 
rosy; upper tail-coverts black; wing-coverts blackish; quills blackish brown, the inner web white at 
the base, the inner secondaries externally margined with white, the dorsal ones more broadly so, the 
