BEARDED TITMOUSE, 



Class IT. 



6. Bearded. Parus. biarmicus. P- rufns, 

 vertice cano, cauda corpore 

 longiore, capite barbato, 

 crisso nigro. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 570. id. Syn. iv. 552 id. 

 Sup. igO. 



Lest Butcher Bird. 



Edw. av. 55- 



Bearded Titmouse. Aldr. av. 

 i. tab. 48. 



Scopoli, No. 241. 



Nest. 



La mesange barbue, ou le 



moustache, Parus barbatus. 



Brisson av. iii. 567. Hist. 



d'ois. v. 418. PL Enl. 6l8. 

 /• 1.2. 

 Parus biarmicus. Gm. Lin. 



1011. 

 Lest Butcher Bird. Br. Zool. 



Ed. 2d. i. 165. 

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



Zool. ii. 126. 



A HIS species is found in the marshes near 

 London : we have seen it near Gloucester ; it is 

 also frequent among the great tracts of reeds 

 near Cowbit 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 dijninutive egg is white, sparingly marked with 

 small rust-colored spots towards the larger end. Ed. 



•J" Latham Syn. iv. 584. 



