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Rectory of an entirely yellow colour ; the dark mark down 

 the head, neck, and breast, much fainter than usual and only 

 visible when very close (Foster-Melliar MS.). One seen at 

 Great Bealings in 1870 killing a bat whose brains it cleared 

 out (E. C. Moor in Z. 2nd S. 2439). 



Blue Titmouse, Parus cceruleus (L.) 

 S. and W. Cat. 23. 



Districts, all. Common throughout the county. Nests. 

 A bird of this species pursued by another at Shimpling- 

 thorne alighted on my hat and let me take it in my hand 

 (C. B.). One eeen by Col. Parker at Eattlesden limed by 

 the gluten of the young shoot of a horse-chesnut ; another 

 got into his house at Clopton, and finding a case of exotic 

 insects accessible ate a great quantity of them off the pins 

 (Col. Parker v. v.). Known in some parts of Suffolk as the 

 Pickcheese (James MS.). Sheppard and Whitear remark 

 that it is known by the names of Betty Tit and Jenny Tit. 



Ceested Titmouse, Parus cristatus, L. 

 East Suffolk. 



2. One distinctly and closely observed by Mr. Hele in a garden at 

 Aldeburgh in the summer of 1861 (Hele, Aid. 82). 



3. One shot on the lawn of the Grange, Melton, about 1873 ; in 

 Mr. Phillips' Collection (W. P. T. Phillips MS. C. B. !). 



Districts. — 2, 3. 



One of the rarest visitants to the county, and to East 



Anglia generally. It had not been observed in Norfolk till 



Mr. Spalding saw one at Ditchingham (F. Spalding MS.). 



Coal Titmouse, Parus ater, L.f 

 S. and W. Cat. 23. Catalogued only. 

 Districts all. Recorded as common or not uncommon all 

 over the county. Nests. 



f Supposed by British authors to be Continental Coal Titmouse with slate- 



tbe P. ater of Linneeus ; but now dis- blue back has been found in Norfolk, and 



tinguished by Sbarpe and Dresser, Ann. probably also occurs occasionally in 



and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) viii., p. 437 Suffolk (J. H. Gurney, jun., MS. and 



(1871), as P. Britannicus, as having an Brit. Orn. Un. List Br. B. p. 26). 

 olive-brown back. The true P. ater or 



