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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



PARID^: 



S)C>' ^ 



THE BLUE TIT. 



Parus ccEmleus, Blue Titmouse, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i.p. 534. 



,, Montagu, Ornith. Diet. 



,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 286. 



,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 80. 



,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 235. 



,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 122. 



,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 



Mesange bleue, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 289. 



The Blue Tit, like the species last described, is very 

 generally distributed in this country, and although a very 

 pretty bird, both as to colour and markings, as well as active 

 and lively, it is but little noticed, and not at all appreciated, 

 probably only because it is exceedingly common. It frc- 

 (luents small woods, orchards, and gardens ; and is said to do 



