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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE BEARDED TITMOUSE. Panurus biArmicus (Linnseus). The drainage of the reedy fens and meres has destroyed the former breeding-grounds of the Bearded Tit in Sussex, Kent, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire; perhaps— aided by the greed of collectors—even in Suffolk. The places where the bird can now be observed in the nesting-season are mostly in the Broad-district of Norfolk, with, perhaps, one locality in Devonshire. As a visitor it has twice occurred in Cornwall; while it has been recorded in Dorset, and along the Thames valley to Gloucestershire ; as well as in Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire. It is a resident species in England, seldom wandering far from its usual haunts ; and if our indigenous birds should be exterminated, there is little hope of their place being supplied by migrants from the Continent. An exceptional wanderer to Heligoland, and rare in Holstein and Germany east of the Moselle, the Bearded Tit becomes compara- tively common in the great reed-beds of Holland ; visiting Belgium in autumn and Luxembourg in winter, to escape the severity of the weather. In France it is principally found in the valley and the delta of the Rhone, and in the marshes below Narbonne. In Spain I observed it in considerable numbers on the Albufera lake, near Valencia, where it is resident; as it is also in the marshes of Italy and Sicily. It is found in suitable situations in Poland, Austro- I 2

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