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PARIDE 



INSESSOBES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



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THE MARSH TIT. 



Parus, palustris, Marsh Titmouse, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 536. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 292. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 80. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 237. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 123. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 

 Mesange no7inette, Temm. Man. d'Ornith, vol. i. p. 291. 



The Marsh Tit, if not so generally distributed as some 

 others of the family, is yet plentiful as a species in many lo- 

 calities ; but, as its name implies, is more partial than the 

 other Tits described to low tracts of land covered with 

 thickets, to marshes, and moist meadows, bearing old willow 

 trees and alders, and to swampy ground near woods, but 

 apparently preferring shorter brushwood to high trees, occa- 



