THE BEARDED TIT. 
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It proved to be a male bird : we may fairly presume that others 
of the remaining eight individuals were of this sex. 
A friend residing in Ayr-shire has frequently seen families of 
long-tailed titmice on the banks of the Stinchar, and in other 
wooded parts of that county. At the end of September, 1842, Mr. 
B. Ball observed about ten or twelve in company, in the wood 
adjacent to the canal at Eort-Augustus, Inverness-shire. Mr. 
Macgillivray mentions, that the species has been met with in the 
adjoining and more northern county of Boss-shire. 
THE BEAEDED TIT. 
Calamophilus biarmicus, Linn, (sp.) 
Parus ,, „ 
Is believed to have been once obtained in Ireland. 
I have never seen a native individual of this bird, and can only 
repeat the short notice of it, as Irish, communicated by me to the 
Zoological Society of London in 1834. “Mr. W. S. Wall, bird- 
preserver, Dublin, who is very conversant with British birds, 
assures me, that he received a specimen of this Pams from the 
neighbourhood of the river Shannon a few years since.” Zool. 
Proc., 1834, p. 30. The species was determined from Bewick's 
characteristic wood-cut. In March, 1833, when I first became 
acquainted with my informant, he told me of its occurrence four 
or five years before that period : the bird being only wounded, 
was kept alive for some time. 
This species is permanently resident where it occurs in England, 
but, according to Yarrell, is not known north of Lincolnshire. 
