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 The Beardmanica or Bearded-Titmouje. 



Numb. XLVIII. 



IT S Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is fix In- 

 ches and a half ; Breadth, when the Wings are extended, ten Inches 

 and a half; weight nine Drams and a half The Bill is fliort, thick 

 and of a yellowilh Colour (in the Hen dusky.) The Head is of a dark 

 cinereous Colour; from the Bill to the back Part of the Eyes, on each 

 Side, a Tuft of black Feathers hangs down, ending in a point, repre- 

 fenting a picked Beard, from which Mark it has the Name of Beard- 

 manica. The Back, upper part of the Wings, and lower part of the 

 Belly and Tail are brown; under the Chin white; the Breaft, Belly 

 and Thighs of a pale yellowifh white, with a Tindiure of brown ; the 

 Legs and Feet black. This Bird is very fingular in his Care and Love 

 which he ihews to the Hen, when at Rooft he covers her all Night with 

 his Wing. 



In each Wing are eighteen prime Feathers, the five or fix outermoft 

 are white, and have the one third of the Length from the Point of a 

 light brown Colour ; all the reft have their exterior Webs black, and 

 their interior Webs light brown. It hath two black Spots on the upper 

 Coverts of the Wings on each fide. 



The Tail is about two Inches and three quarters long, compounded of 

 twelve Feathers of the fame Colour with the Back. 



The Hen is fomething fmaller than the Cock, and of a more beauti- 

 ful yellowilh brown ; the Wing and Legs of the fame Colour with thofe 

 of the Cock. The Hen is without the Beard, and more pale on the 

 Breaft. 



Thefe two Birds I bought of Mr. Bland on Tower-Htll^ who told me 

 he had them from "Jutland, I have been fince inform'd by Sir Robert Abdy 

 that they are found in the Salt'MarJhes in EJfex, and by others that 

 they are likewife in the Fens in Lmcolnjlnre. 



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