BEARDED TITMOUSE. 
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throat and breast, the centre of the cheek 
feathers being marked with blackish gray. 
Above each eye a broad stripe of black, which 
meets on the occiput, and ruus down the centre 
of the back, forming the mantle. Most of the 
back and scapulars rose red, centre of the 
feathers sometimes streaked with black, rump 
and upper tail coverts black. Wings black, the 
secondaries deeply edged with white. Tail 
black, three outer feathers, with the tips and 
outer webs, black. Belly and vent ash gray, 
tinted with rose red, particularly on the flanks 
and under tail coverts. 
A specimen in our possession, killed near Edin- 
burgh, has the crown and under parts white, but 
all the other parts of the plumage black, tinged 
only on the scapulars with rose red. 
The Bearded Titmouse, Calamophilus 
biarmicus, Leach. — Calamophilus biarmicus, 
Leach. Cat. of British Museum. — Jen. — Parus 
biarmicus, Linn. — Le Mesange barbue ou mous- 
tache, Buff. Temm — Bearded Titmouse of British 
authors. — This form appears to us to be still more 
aberrant than that of the Long-tailed Titmouse, 
and we are by no means satisfied that it should 
not rank as a sub-genus of parus. By Dr Leach 
it was separated under the title of Calamophilus, 
and by a modern writer it has received the 
name of Laniellus. It varies certainly as much 
from the pari as the aquatic warblers do from 
the Willow Wrens or Curruca ; and if two or 
