THE COAL TITMOUSE 
PARUS ATER (sub-sp. BRITANNICUS) 
Loca. names in surrounding counties : 
Srarus 1N British Avirauna: A widely distributed 
resident in all wooded districts, its numbers largely 
increased in autumn by migrants. 
RapiaLt DisTRiIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF OT. 
Pavut’s : The Coal ‘Titmouse is another of those species 
that is generally met with in the immediate precincts 
of the city during the autumn and winter. It is, how- 
ever, by no means as common in the Metropolitan area, 
apparently, as the two preceding species, and many of the 
individuals that pay London a visit are doubtless autumn 
migrants from Continental localities. I have records of 
the Coal Titmouse as near the city limits as St. James’s 
Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Regent’s Park, 
Holland Park, and Battersea Park. ‘That it also pays 
fitful and fleeting visits to many other spots where 
trees grow within the inner portions of the great city 
is undoubted. In the outlying suburbs the bird, of 
course, becomes of more frequent occurrence. It is 
recorded as breeding at Dulwich and Norwood, and to 
these localities may be added Tooting and Clapham. 
Elsewhere it certainly breeds in the Kew, Richmond, 
and Wimbledon districts, at Bushey, Hounslow, Osterley, 
Hanwell, Horsenden, Twyford, Wembley, Harrow, Kings- 
bury, and Elstree. It also nests in the Epping area, 
Wanstead, in the Kentish Crays, and in the Croydon, 
Banstead, Epsom, Merton, and Cheam districts. 
Precisely similar remarks apply to the Coal Titmouse 
as to the preceding species, although the bird is a much 
scarcer one, and not so familiar and trustful as the last- 
named. Its habits are very similar ; in autumn and winter it 
becomes more or less gregarious and social, in summer living 
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