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LONG-TAILED TIT. 



LOiNG-TATLED TITMOUSE. MUM RUFFIN. BOTTLE TIT. 



LOKG-TAIL PIE. LOJTO TOM. BOTTLE TOM. POKE PUDDI]S^O. 



LONG POD. IIUCK-MUCK. LONG-TAILED MAG. MUFFLIJf. 



LONG-TAILED MUFFLIN. 



T BENLOTN GNYFFONHIR, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 



Farus caudatus. Pennant. Montagu. 



" lonyicaudatns, Bktsson. 



Mecistura vaqans. Leach. 



Pnrus — ? Caudatus — Tailed. 



*How pleasant it is,' says Macgillivray, 'to gaze upon these 

 little creatures, streaming along the tops of the tall trees by 

 the margin of the brook, ever in motion, searching the twigs 

 with care, and cheeping their shrill notes as they scamper 

 away, one after another.' This is from the life. Thus have 

 I often seen them jerking off from tree to tree, or branch to 

 branch, and pleasant they are to behold. Mr. Hewitson also 

 well observes, T have never met with the Long-tailed Titmouse 

 so common, or seen them so often, as to destroy the novelty 

 and interest which their appearance never fails to excite, as 

 they come flitting across my path in rapid succession.' 



The Long-tailed Titmouse inhabits the whole of the continent 

 of Europe, as a permanent, but moveable resident, from Siberia 

 and Eussia, to Holland and Italy. In Asia, M. Temminck 

 records it as a native of Japan; and Latham of the West 

 Indies. 



This species is common in this country, frequenting plan- 

 tations, woods, thickets, shrubberies, and taU hedges. It is to 

 be met with throughout England and Wales, as also in Ireland, 



