396 BEARDED TITMOUSE. Crass If, 
167. Bearp- Left Butcher Bird. Briffon av. Tl. 567. - 
ED. | fidw.-av.. 55; Parus biarmicus. Lin, fy. — 
Bearded Titmoufe. Aldr. av. 342. Br. Zool. 74. plate 
I. tab. 48. Scopoli, No. 241. (Ci .2. 
Ia mefange barbue, ou le’ Left Butcher Bird. Br. Zook 
mouitache, Parus barbatus. Ed. 2d. Ts 365% 
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ve Signs fpecies ts found in the marfhes near 
London: we have feen it near Gloucefter; it is 
alfo frequent among the great tracts of reeds near _ 
Cowbit in Lincolnfbire, where I fufpect they breed. 
It is of the fame fhape as the long tailed ‘titmoufe, 
Dsscarp. but rather larger. The bill is fhort, ftrong, and 
very convex; of a box color: zrides pale yellow: 
the head is of a fine grey : on each fide of the bill, 
beneath the eye, is a long triangular tuft of black 
feathers: the chin and throat are white: the mid- 
dle of the breaft flefh colored: the fides and thighs 
of a pale orange: the hind part of the neck and | 
the back are of an orange bay: the fecondary fea- 
thers of the wings are black edged with orange: 
the quil-feathers dufky on their exterior, white on 
their interior fides: the leffer quil-feathers tipt with 
orange. The tail is two inches three quarters 
long: the two middle feathers of the tail are larg- 
eft, the others gradually fhorten on each fide; the 
eutmoft of which are of a deep orange color. The 
vent-feathers of the male of a pale black: of the 
female 
