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2% THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
and enemies of that a. befides, this Cewali 
ae ‘remarkably Evbuslte, on account of exit, 
and infects, which are the principal food of tt 
Penduline Titmoufe. — The opening of the neftis 
_on one fide, generally towards the water ; the 
male of this {pecies lays but four or five eggs, a 
breeds twice a year. | 
Penduline ‘Titmice frequent marfhy fituations 
“concealing themfelves amongft rufhes, reel 
and the-leaves of aquatic pant, 
ae BEARDED TITMOUSE, 
‘_ The head is grey, the tail longer bhaa the body, the bil 
erange colour in the living bird, beneath each eye isa tlt | 
of black feathers, like whitkers, } 


‘It inhabits Europe, and is found in mashy 
fituations, in feveral parts of England, in the 
marfhes among the reeds near London, any in 
Gloucefterfhire and Lancathire, ; 
This has been luppofed to be an Indian bird. Me 
Buffon fuggefts, that it was introduced into Eng 
land by the Countefs of Albemarle, who brouglt 
a cage full of them from Denmark, fome whit! 2 
might have efcaped, and jlanted a colony with 
but they are too numerous, and too widely difperles, 
to fuppofe that to have been their. firft introduction 
They feed on the feeds of reeds, and on fal 
inleds 

