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including near seventy species ; — an unusually large number 

 for so limited a locality in such a situation. The five species 

 of Tits, just referred to, are included in this list ; these birds 

 are probably attracted to this spot by the insect food to be 

 found about old trees in various stages of decay, a London 

 atmosphere being unfavourable to healthy vegetation. 



From London westward, the Marsh Tit may be traced to 

 Cornwall and Wales. In Ireland, according to Mr. Thomp- 

 son, this bird has been killed in the Phoenix Park, near 

 Dublin ; in the county of Kildare ; in the vicinity of Belfast, 

 and in the county of Donegal. From London northward, it 

 may be traced through Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Lincoln- 

 shire. I have been favoured Avith a Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, by Mr. Neville Wood, and the 

 Rev. Orpen Moms, and these sources of information have 

 been frequently quoted : from the first I learn, in the present 

 instance, that the Marsh Tit is abundant in Derbyshire, and 

 from the second, that it is also common in Yorkshire. Mr. 

 Selby includes it in his Catalogue of the Birds of Dur- 

 ham and Northumberland ; and Mr. Macgillivray has noticed 

 it near Edinburgh. From the works of Muller, Brunnich, 

 and M. Nilsson, this bird appears to be resident in Denmark, 

 Norway, and Sweden, and remains even in Russia and Si- 

 beria all the year. It is dispersed over the European conti- 

 nent ; and, as might be expected, is more abundant in Hol- 

 land than elsewhere. It is resident also all the year as far 

 south as Provence and Italy ; but is not very common. 



The Marsh Tit is immediately distinguished from the Cole 

 Tit by having no white patch on the nape of the neck, nor 

 any white spots on either row of the wing-coverts. 



The beak is black ; the irides dark hazel ; the forehead, 

 crown, and nape, deep black ; the back, wing-coverts, and 

 upper tail-coverts, ash brown tinged with green ; wing and 

 tail-feathers greyish brown, with the edges rather lighter in 



