. An illustrated manual of British birds . d some writers have advocated itsrelationship to the Finches ; it is, however, as Professor Newtonremarks, a perfectly distinct form, with no very near relations, andentitled to be regarded as the representative of a separate family,the Panurida. The adult male has the crown bluish-grey ; a black loral patchdescends diagonally from below the eye and terminates in a pointedmoustache; nape, back and rump orange-tawny; wings longitu-dinally striped with buffish-white, black and rufous ; quills brownwith white outer margins ; tail mostly rufous; chin and
. An illustrated manual of British birds . d some writers have advocated itsrelationship to the Finches ; it is, however, as Professor Newtonremarks, a perfectly distinct form, with no very near relations, andentitled to be regarded as the representative of a separate family,the Panurida. The adult male has the crown bluish-grey ; a black loral patchdescends diagonally from below the eye and terminates in a pointedmoustache; nape, back and rump orange-tawny; wings longitu-dinally striped with buffish-white, black and rufous ; quills brownwith white outer margins ; tail mostly rufous; chin and throatgreyish-white turning into greyish-pink on the breast; flanks orange-tawny ; under tail-coverts jet black ; bill yellow; legs and feetblack. Length 6*5 in. ; wing 2-25 in. The female has the headbrownish-fawn, and no black on the moustache or under tail-coverts ; in other respects she is merely duller than the male. Theyoung are like the female, but the crown of the head and the middleof the back are streaked with black. PARID^:. 93. THE LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. AcREDULA CAUDATA (Linnceus). The Long-tailed Titmouse is one of those species which exhibita strong tendency to variation under climatic or other conditions ;and ornithologists must exercise their individual discretion in classingeach form as a race, a sub-species, or a completely segregatedspecies. In the bird found in Scandinavia, Northern Germany,Austria and Russia—extending across Siberia to Japan—when fullyadult the head is white ; the purity and extent of that colourattaining their maximum in the far north. This is the trueA. caudata, as restricted by some authors; an example of whichhas been obtained in Northumberland, while others, as well asvarious intergradations between this and the next form, have beenobserved. In the Netherlands, Germany west of Cassel, and partof France, it meets and interbreeds with the form which represents itin the British Islands, distinguished by its duller tints and by havingt
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