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me a list of birds observed by himself in Kensington Gar- 

 dens, including near seventy species ; an unusually large 

 number for so limited a locality in such a situation. The 

 five species of Tits, just referred to, are included in this 

 list ; these birds are probably attracted to this spot by the 

 insect food to be found about old trees in various stages of 

 decay, a London atmosphere being unfavourable to healthy 

 vegetation. 



From London westward, the Marsh Tit may be traced 

 to Cornwall and Wales. In Ireland, according to Mr. 

 Thompson, tliis bird has been killed in the Phoenix Park, 

 near Dublin ; in the county of Kildare ; in the vicinity 

 of Belfast ; and in the county of Donegal. From London 

 northward, it may be traced through Essex, Suffolk, Nor- 

 folk, and Lincolnshire. I have been favoured with a Ca- 

 talogue of the Birds of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, by Mr. 

 Neville Wood, and the Rev. Orpen Morris, and these 

 sources of information have been frequently quoted : from 

 the first I learn, in the present instance, that the Marsh 

 Tit is abundant in Derbyshire ; and from the second, that 

 it is also common in Yorkshire. Mr. Selby includes it 

 in his Catalogue of the Birds of Durham and Northum- 

 berland ; and Mr. Macgillivray has noticed it near Edin- 

 burgh. From the works of Muller, Brunnich, and M. 

 Nilsson, this bird appears to be resident in Denmark, 

 Norway, and Sweden, and remains even in Russia and 

 Siberia all the year. It is dispersed over the European 

 continent ; and, as might be expected, is more abundant 

 in Holland than elsewhere. It is resident also all the 

 year as far south as Provence, Italy, and Sicily ; but is 

 not very common. 



The Marsh Tit is immediately distinguished from the 

 Cole Tit by having no white patch on the nape of the neck 

 nor any white spots on either row of the wing-coverts. 



