PARUS ATER. 253 



[§ 1033. Seven.— LecV, Donegal, 29 May, 1862. "R. H." 

 From Mr. Robert Harvey.] 



[§ 1034. Flve.—^t. Neot's, Huiitingclonshire, 10 May, 1864. 

 From Mr. Rowley. 



The nest, which contained seven eggs, was in a cedar, and Mr. Rowley 

 saw the birds.] 



[^035. i\%«^.—Sparham, Norfolk, 24 May, 1871. "F.N." 

 From Mr. Norgate.] 



[\ 1036. yb/.— Sparham, Norfolk, 5 May, 1875. From Mr. 

 Norgate.] 



[§ 1037. Four. — Man-of-Ross House, Herefordshire. From the 

 late Mr. Scales's Collection, 1885.] 



PARUS ATER, Liimgeus.' 

 COAL-TITMOUSE. 

 § 1038. Two.— Yxom Mr. Hewitson, 1844. 



§ 1039. One.— ¥vom Mr. John Hancock, 1846. 



§ 1040. 7ko.— Bearwood, Berks. From Mr. H. F. Walter, 

 1852. 



Taken in a rabbit-burrow by the keeper. 

 [§ 1041. Tbo.— Elveden, 1847.] 



' [It will be seen that all the eggs enumerated under this heading should belong 

 to the form which has been described as a distinct species, P. hritannmis ; but 

 birds killed by Mr. WoUey during the breeding-season in one of the old Scottish 

 pine-forests, though more resembling English than foreign specimens, are yet inter- 

 mediate between them — a fact which seems to shew that specific differentiation 

 has not been entirely established [cf. Yarrell, Br. Birds, ed. 4, i. pp. 492-494. — Ed.] 



