. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. PANURIDM—TITS. 91 Family PANURIDi©.. Bearded Tit: Panurus biarmicus. Locally, " Reed ; A scarce and local resident in Britain, and rapidly becoming rarer on account of t ..-^si f/, the draining of its haunts. It once bred commonly in Essex, and a nest was found near Sudbury as lately as 1868. It may even do so yet, though this has not been established. Albin says (3. i. 46) : " I have been informed by Sir Robert Abdy that they are found in the salt marshes in Essex," and Donovan quot
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. PANURIDM—TITS. 91 Family PANURIDi©.. Bearded Tit: Panurus biarmicus. Locally, " Reed ; A scarce and local resident in Britain, and rapidly becoming rarer on account of t ..-^si f/, the draining of its haunts. It once bred commonly in Essex, and a nest was found near Sudbury as lately as 1868. It may even do so yet, though this has not been established. Albin says (3. i. 46) : " I have been informed by Sir Robert Abdy that they are found in the salt marshes in Essex," and Donovan quotes (5. i. 6) Albin's words. "A Lover of Nature," writ- ing from Woolwich in bearded tits, ;3. 1829, says (12. ii. 222) : " Bearded Titmice inhabit the marshes bordering on the Thames, both in Kent and Essex. I was told in December last that some had lately been seen in a large piece of reeds below Barking Creek. * * * The Bearded Titmouse is known in these parts by the name of the Reed ; He next details his observations upon eight or ten of these birds which he saw at the spot named, and one of which he contrived to shoot. "O," writing in 1832, says (12. V, 544) that at that time it might be seen about the months of Novem- ber and December feeding on the seeds of the reed, which then grew in great luxuriance on the banks of the lake at Dagenham. Yarrell, in 1843, says (14. i. 353) it " inhabits the various reed-beds on the banks of the ; More, writing in 1865, says (23. 121) that it "still breeds in Surrey (Rev. J. C Atkinson), and probably in Essex (where the bird has been noticed)." This surmise seems to have been correct, for Mr. Grubb informed Canon Babington (46. 65) that he believed he saw a pair in a bed of reeds in the Stour near Brun- don Hall, Sudbury, in or about 1868. Mr. J. F. Hills informed the same gentle- man (46. 65) that he also had seen them on the Stour at Sudbury, and that they bred there
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