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Pants hibemicus. Daily Mail (!) No. 4593, p. 3 (2S.xii.l910 — County 

 Sligo, Ireland. Author not clearly stated, either "Natural History 

 authorities," Louis Wain, or Sir William Ingram). 



Distribution. — Confined to Ireland. Resident, and generally 

 distributed, more especially in wooded districts.* 



PARUS CRISTATUS 



94. Parus cristatus scoticus (Prazak) — THE SCOTTISH 



CRESTED TITMOUSE. 



LoPHOPHANES CRISTATUS scoTiCA Prazak, Journ. f. Orn., 1897, p. 347 



(Scotland). 



Parus cristatus Linnaeus, Yarrell, i, p. 499 ; Saunders, p. Ill ; P. c. scotica 



(Prazak), Hartert, Brit. B., i, p. 215. 



Distribution. — Confined to Scotla7id. Confined to Spey Valley, 

 where resident over whole area of pine-tracts in Abernethy, Rothie- 

 murchus and Dulnan, from base of Cairngorms to Ballindalloch. 

 Vagrants, possibly of this form, have occurred Argyll, Perth, and 

 Dumbarton. 



95. Parus cristatus cristatus L.— THE NORTHERN CRESTED 



TIT. 



Parus cristatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 189 (1758 — " Habitat 



in Europa." Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Parus cristatus cristatus L., Witherby, Brit. B., v, pp. 109-10. 



Distribution. — England. — One, Whitby (Yorks.), March, 1872 

 {ut supra) . 



[Other examples (not examined) of Crested Tits, recorded as 

 obtained, are : Thirsk (Yorks.), near Christchurch (Hants.), 1846, 

 Grange, Melton (Suffolk), about 1873, Suffolk, about 1840. Others 

 are recorded as seen.] 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Scandinavia, north Russia, Poland, and 

 east Germany. Replaced in west Germany, central and west 

 Europe by Parus cristatus mitratus Brehm, a much bro^^^ler form. 



96. Parus cristatus mitratus Brehm— CENTRAL EUROPEAN 



CRESTED TIT. 



Parus mitratus Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl., p. 467 (1831 — 



Germany). 



Parus cristatus mitratus Brehm, Witherby, Brit. B., v, p. 110. 



Distribution. — England. — One. Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) pre- 

 vious to 1844 {ut supra). 



* Some examples, especially from co. Down, are not separable from 

 Parus a. britannicus. 



