28 SITTID^E. 



Parus cristatus. CEESTED TITMOUSE. 

 Parus cristatus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 340 (1766). 



Parus cristatus, Naum. iv. p. 42; Macg. ii. p. 450; Hewitson, 

 p. 154; Gray, p. 63; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 366; id. ed. 3, 

 i. p. 391; Newton, i. p. 499; Gould, ii. pi. 26; Harting, 

 p. 20. 



Lophophanes cristatus, Dresser, iii. p. 151. 



Crested Tit, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 334. 



Cristatus = furnished with a crest, crista. 



This species is found in the forests of Northern and 

 Central Europe as far east as the Ural. In the British Islands 

 it is extremely local, being very rare in England and Ireland, 

 and breeding only in a few of the oldest forests in Scotland. 



Family SITTIDJE. 

 Genus SITTA, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 177 (1766). 



Sitta = (TLTTi], a bird well known to the Greeks. Perhaps akin to ^/ 

 = a parrot, an Indian word, of which a softer form, ffiTTaKij, occurs ; or 

 possibly from oifa = I hiss or whistle. 



Sitta caesia. NUTHATCH. 



Sitta caesia, Wolf, Taschenb. deutsch. Vb'g. i. p. 128 



(1810). 



Sitta europsea, Naum. v. p. 377 ; Macg. iii. p. 48 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 247; Gray, p. 39; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 183 ; id. ed. 3, 

 ii. p. 188. 



Sitta csesia, Newton, i. p. 473 ; Gould, ii. pi. 22 ; Harting, 

 p. 20; Dresser, iii. p. 175. 



Nuthatch, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 174. 



C<ssia = bluish grey. 



Resident throughout the wooded districts of England and 

 Wales, though less frequent towards the north-west and 

 north ; accidental in Scotland, and unknown in Ireland. It 

 inhabits most parts of the Western Palsearctic Region south 

 of Jutland and west of Moscow, being replaced in Scandinavia 

 by S. europcea. 



