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Identifier: cassellsbookofbi02breh (find matches)
Title: Cassell's book of birds
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London (etc.), Cassell, Petter and Galpin
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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to its transparency, appears pale red until it is emptied of its contents.We are told, on good authority, that both parents assist in the process of incubation. The young arereared principally upon small caterpillars, flies, and beetles. The REED TITMICE (Panurus) are distinguishable by their slender body, long and muchgraduated tail, moderate-sized wings, in which the fourth and fifth quills exceed the rest in length,and their short, much-curved beak. The plumage is comparatively smooth and compact, but variesaccording to the age or sex of the bird. THE BEARDED TITMOUSE. The Bearded Titmouse (Panurus biarmicus) is light cinnamon brown on the upper part of the body, greyish blue on the crown of the head, and light rose-red on the under side ; the throat is whitish, the region of the tail black ; the brown wings are decorated with a white stripe, and edged with a line of black. The chin ot the male is covered with a beard-like tuft of soft black feathers, 304 CASSELLS UUUK Ul- iSlKDS.
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BEARDED AND FENDULINE TITS. THE SINGING BIRDS. 305 about nine inches long. The plumage of the female is paler; the back is of a light shade, darklyspotted ; the lower tail-covers are pale rust-red, and the very slightly indicated beard white. Theyoung are almost black upon the back. The length of this species is from six inches to six and ahalf, and its breadth from seven inches to seven and a half; the wing measures two inches and a half,and the tail three inches and a quarter. The Bearded Titmouse is met with in all the north-eastern parts of Europe. In Great Britainit is but rarely seen; it is, however, comparatively numerous in Holland, South Hungary, Greece,and a portion of Asia Minor. Everywhere it seeks the reed-covered banks of rivers, and lives inpairs or in small families. Dr. Leach was induced to separate this very interesting bird from the genus Parus in con-sequence of its differing in several minor characters from the other species of that genus, particularlyin the situa

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