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BEARDED TITMOUSE. 



(Parus biarmicus.) 



Pa. rujiis vertice cano, capite harbato, crisso nigro, cauda corpore 

 longiore. 



Rufous Titmouse, with a hoary crown, head bearded, and vent 



black ; tail longer than the body. 

 Parus biarmicus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 342. 12. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 



Si.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. lOlI. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 5/0. 23. 

 Parus barbatus. Briss. 3. 567- 12. 



La Mesange barbue, ou la Moustache. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 5. 



518. \S.~Biiff. PL Enl. 618./ 1. 2. 

 Least Batcher Bird. Edwards. 55. 



Bearded Titmouse. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1.167- — P^^' -^rct. Zool. 

 2. 428. H. — Alhin. Birds. 1. 48. — Lath. Gen. Syn.A. 552. 20. 

 — Lath. Sijn. Sup. IQO.—Beiviclc. Brit. Birds. 1. 246. — Mont. 

 Brit. Birds. I. — Mont. Sup. — Don. Brit. Birds. 1. ^. 1. — Lewin. 

 Brit. Birds. 3. t, 122. 



This elegant bird is about six inches and a 

 quarter in length, of which the tail makes one 

 half: the beak is near half an inch long, of an 

 orange colour, which changes after death to a dingy 

 yellow : irides yellow : head pale ash-colour : be- 

 neath the eye is a tuft of loose black feathers, 

 ending in a point downwards : hind part of the 

 neck and back light rufous orange : scapulars 

 whitish : quills dusky ; the inner webs of the pri- 

 maries white ; the edges of the secondaries and 

 the greater coverts the same colour as the back : 

 throat white: breast cinereous flesh-colour ; belly, 

 sides, and thighs, like the back, but paler : vent and 



