6 PL, AA 2 we. 
The Great Titmoufe, Colemoufe, and Marfh Titmoufe; with the 
Blue, Long-tailed, and Bearded, Titmice, are the only fpecies of 
the tribe which inhabit this country: they are all very frequent ex- 
cepting the latter; which however is not uncommon in certain fitua- 
tions, though formerly efteemed as rare. 
Tt was defcribed by 4/drovandus in his Ornithology publifhed in the 
years 1610—16133 and appears to be well known at that time in fe- 
veral parts of Europe, though unknown in Britain: more than a cen- 
tury after Aldrovandus, (1734), it was included in a Hiftory of the 
Birds of Germany by 7. £. Frifch; but even at that time, was fo 
rare with us, that it was fcarcely afcertained to be a native of Britain; 
and Albin, who feems to have pofleffed fome knowledge of Birds, de= 
termines it as a native, only on the authority of the information he 
received from others; his Hiftory of Birds was publifhed in 1738; 
therein he gives a figure of the Male Bird, and fays in the Defcriptions 
annexed, ** Thefe two birds (male and female) I bought of Mr. Bland 
on Lower-hi/l, who told me he had them from ‘futland : ‘I have been 
fince informed by Sir Robert Abdy, that they are found in the Salt- 
marjbes in Effex, and by others that they are likewife in the fens in 
Lincolnfoire.” 
He alfo obferves that it receives the name Reardmanica from the 
black tuft refembling a picked beard. 
Edwards * refers it to the tribe of Butcher-birds, under the title of 
Lanius Adinimus, Leaft Butcher-Bird ; but Linnzus, in his Sy/fema 
Natura, reduced it to the PARUs genus; and late writers have alfo 
determined it to the fame family. 
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* G. Edwards’s Nat. Hift. of Birds, Vol. 7. 4to. London, 1743, &c. 
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