BRITISH LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE 95 



Dr. A. G. Butler, in bis British Birds' Eggs, 1886, states : 

 " I have also seen a nest, but witbout eggs, at Kemsle}', 

 on tbe Kentisb coast. The nest was placed upon a small 

 island of partly decayed reeds (trodden down by Moor- 

 bens and Ducks) near the centre of a large pond. It is 

 therefore clear that the county of Kent is not yet wholly 

 deserted as a breeding-place by this species." 



Mr. W. Prentis records, in his Birds of Bainham 

 (1894), " three that were shot in a reed-bed on the banks 

 of the Medwav in the winter of 1865, near Maidstone." 



Family PARID^. 



Genus ACREDULA, Koch. 



WHITE-HEADED LONG-TAILED 

 TITMOUSE. 



AcreduJa caudata (Linna-us). 8.N., i., p. 342 (1766). 



The only recorded example of tbis species having been 

 obtained in Kent is upon the authorities of Messrs. C. 

 Gordon and G. Dowker, in the latter's Birds of East 

 Kent, 1889. The specimen was killed near Dover Castle. 

 It was, or now is, in the collection of Mr, W. Prentis. 



BEITISH LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 



Acredula rosea (Blyth). White's Nat. Hist. 

 Selborne, p. Ill, note, 1836. 



Bottle Tit. 



The British Long-tailed Titmouse is generally distri- 

 buted over the county. These curious little titmice 

 may be seen in the latter part of the summer, and 



