MARSH TIT. 397 



INSESSOBES. PAEIDM. 



DENTIROSTRES. 





THE MARSH TIT. 



Parus palustris. 



Parus palustris, Marsh Titmouse, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 536. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 292. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 80. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 237. 



JEXYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 123. 



Jf GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Mtsange nonnette, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 291. 



THE MARSH TIT, if not so generally distributed as some 

 others of the family, is yet plentiful as a species in many 

 localities ; but, as its name implies, is more partial than 

 the other Tits described, to low tracts of land covered 

 with thickets, to marshes, and moist meadows, bearing old 

 willow trees and alders, and to swampy ground near woods, 



