42 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



occasionally seen far away from their breeding-places (Germany, 

 Brittany, Normandy, Alderney, etc.). 



SITTA EUROP^EA 



86. Sitta europasa britannica Hart. THE BRITISH 

 NUTHATCH. 



SITTA EUROP^A BRITANNICA Hartert, Nov. Zool., 1900, p. 526 (England). 

 Sitta ccesia Wolf, Yarrell, i, p. 473 ; Saunders, p. 113 ; S. e. britannica 

 Hartert, Brit. B., i, p. 218. 



DISTRIBUTION. Confined to Great Britain. Resident. Tolerably 

 common south and central England, rarer west Cornwall and Wales, 

 and very rare or unknown extreme south-west Cornwall and western 

 Wales. In Isle of Wight unknown. Very local Cheshire and Yorks., 

 north of which counties only a straggler, but has occasionally bred. 

 In Scotland has occurred three times in south-east (said to have 

 bred near Ednam (Roxburgh) about 1850), two were seen Skye, 

 and is said to have occurred in Shetlands. In Ireland one seen 

 Malahide (Dublin), March 26, 1911, was no doubt introduced (cf. 

 Brit. B, v, pp. 28 and 229). 



PARUS MAJOR 



87. Parus major major L. THE CONTINENTAL GREAT 

 TITMOUSE. 



PARUS MAJOR Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 189 (1758 " Habitat in 

 Europa." Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Great numbers Norfolk and Suffolk 

 coasts Oct., 1910 (C. B. Ticehurst, Brit. B., iv, p. 247). Others at 

 same time Kent andinScilly Isles in Nov. (N. F. Ticehurst, i.e., p. 228). 

 One, Isle of May, Oct. 15, 1910 (E. V. Baxter and L. J. Rintoul, 

 Ann. S.N.H., 1911, p. 3). One Fair Isle, Nov. 17, 1910, and one 

 probable Shetlands, Oct. 25, 1910 (Brit. B., v, p. 200). In Oct., 1910, 

 many, probably of this form, seen in Yorks., and apparently immi- 

 grant Great Tits have often been noted in autumn on east coasts 

 England, and particularly in 1878, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1889, and 1901 

 (cf. Birds Yorks., i, p. 108), while what was deemed a return migra- 

 tion was noted in Norfolk in Feb., 1848 (Birds Norfolk, i, p. 140), 

 but no examples of these earlier immigrations have been identified. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Europe generally to Mediterranean, east 

 to west Siberia and Altai. Replaced by allied forms on some 

 Mediterranean islands and Greece, north-west Africa and many parts 

 of Asia. 



