YOUNG CRESTED TITMOUSE. 



THE CRESTED TITMOUSE. 



PAR US CRIST AT US. 



COMMON as this little bird is in Norway, Sweden, 

 and Finland, and by no means scarce in parts of 

 Scotland, where it is a permanent resident in some 

 of the oldest forests, it must certainly be regarded 

 as the rarest of the Tit family in England. This 

 curious circumstance is not to be accounted for on 

 the supposition that the bird is essentially a northern 



