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PARID.E. 
longest feathers of the tail are also fawn-colour; the rest 
rufous-brown, shading into white towards the tips. The 
quill-feathers are dusky, edged with white ; the tertials black, 
deeply bordered with rust; the coverts of the wing the same. 
The lower part of the breast is tinged with peach blossom, the 
middle of the belly white, the vent black : the beak and eyes 
are orange, the legs and feet black. In the female the mous¬ 
tache is white, the head and sides of the neck hair-brown ; 
the rest of the upper plumage brownish-fawn; the head 
and middle of the back streaked with dusky along the shafts of 
the feathers. The tail is not so long as in the male, but 
the rest of the colouring is nearly similar. 
The egg of the Bearded Titmouse is figured 82 in the 
plate. 
