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ORD. III. GEN. XII. TITMOUSE. 



SPE. VII. BEARDED TITMOUSE. 



PI. i2 3 ; 



Parus biarmicus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 342. 



Le Mefange barbue, ou le Mouftache. BriJ. Orn. III. p. 567. 



This is larger than the foregoing fpecies, and is fix inches and a quarter in 

 length. The bill in the male is orange-colour: the eyes hazel: the head 

 grey : beneath the eye is a tuft of black feathers ending in a point like a whif- 

 ker : the upper parts of the body of an orange bay, or yellow ruft-colour : the 

 chin and throat white : breaft flefh colour: the belly, fides, and thighs, much 

 the fame as the upper parts, but paler: the vent black : the quill feathers dufky 

 with pale edges ; the fecondaries black edged with orange : the tail is cunei- 

 form, two inches and three quarters long, and in colour like the back, but 

 fomewhat deeper : the legs are black. 



In the female the black mark on the cheek and the fine flefh colour on the 

 breaft are wanting : the crown of the head is of a brownilh ruft colour, fpotted 

 with black : the vent of the fame colour with the belly : and the outmoft fea- 

 thers of the tail are black tipped with white. 



This fpecies, I believe, is found only in watery places where reeds grow ; 

 among which it makes its neft, and breeds. It is a conflant inhabitant of this 

 kingdom, and may be met with in the above fituations at all feafons. 



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