iS4 ' THE natural history 
and enemies of that kind ; befides, this filiation 
is remarkably favourable, on account of gnats, 
and infers, which are the principal food of the 
Penduline 1 itmoufe. The opening of the neft is 
on one fide, generally towards the water; the fe¬ 
male of this fpecies lays but four or five eggs, and 
breeds twice a year. 
Penduline Titmice frequent marfhy fituations, 
concealing themfelves amongfl rufhcs, reeds, 
and the leaves of aquatic plants. 
The BEARDED TITMOUSE. 
The head is grey, the tail longer than the body, the hill 
orange colour in the living bird, beneath each eye is a tuft 
of black feathers, like w bilkers. 
It inhabits Europe, and is found in marfhy 
fituations, in leveral parts of England, in the 
mar flies among the reeds near London, and in 
Glouceflerfhire and Lancafhire. 
This has been fuppofed to be an Indian bird. Mr. 
Buffon fuggefts, that it was introduced into Eno- 
t> 
land by the Gountefs of Albemarle, who brought 
a cage full of them from Denmark, fome which 
might have elcaped, and planted a colony with us, 
but they are too numerous, and too widely difperfed, 
to fuppofe that to have been their firft introduction. 
They feea oil the feeds of reeds, and on fmall 
infects, 
