MARSH TIT. 



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colour ; the tail even at the end ; the chin black ; the cheeks, 

 throat, and breast, dull greyish white ; flanks, belly, and 

 under tail-coverts, tinged with light brown ; under surface of 

 wing and tail-feathers grey ; legs, toes, and claws, bluish 

 black. 



The whole length of the bird four inches and a half. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing-primaries two 

 inches and three-eighths : the first quill-feather very short ; 

 the second equal in length to the ninth ; the third equal to 

 the seventh ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth, nearly equal, and 

 the longest in the wing. 



The sexes do not differ in plumage. 



The vignette below represents, on the left hand, the breast- 

 bone of the Nightingale ; and on the right, the same part in 

 the Great Tit, as illustrative of the form of the sternum in 

 the ffenera Philomela and Panes. 



Since the publication of the Seventh Part of this work, containing the ac- 

 count of the Crested Tit, I have received a letter from my friend Sir William 

 Jardine, Bart, to inform me that the scales and cast-off exuvia of snakes, allud- 

 ed to as used for the lining of a nest at page 335, was intended to refer to the 

 Pants bicolor of America, and not to the Parus cristatus of Europe. 



