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Parus palllStris. (Extra-limital.) 

 Parus palustris dresseri. BEITISH MARSH- 



TlTMOUSE. 



Parus palustris dresseri Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 ix. 1886, p. 200 : Great Britain. 



Parus palustris Linn. ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, p. 49 

 (part.) ; B. O. U. List, Isted. 1883, p. 27 ; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 107. 



Dresseri, named after the English ornithologist, Henry Eeles Dresser. 



Distribution. Resident in England, where it is widely, 

 but in some counties locally, distributed. Not known in 

 Scotland, but is said to have been formerly a native of 

 Ireland. It has recently been introduced into Tipperary. 



It is not known on the Continent of Europe. 



Parus borealis. NORTHERN WILLOW-TITMOUSE. 



Parus borealis Selys-Longchamps, Bull. Ac. Bruxelles, x. 

 2. 1843, p. 28 : Iceland errore, probably from Norway. 



Parus borealis Selys-LoiigcJt. ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 

 1883, p. 51 ; O.. Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxiii. 1908, p. 34. 



Borealis = northern. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. One 

 was obtained in Gloucestershire in March 1907, and others 

 perhaps seen in Hertfordshire in Jan. 1908. 



General Distribution. The Northern Willow-Tit breeds in 

 Scandinavia, northern and north-western Russia, the Russian 

 Baltic Provinces, and East Prussia. It is a wanderer in 

 winter and has been found in Poland and central Russia. 



Parus borealis kleinschmidti. BRITISH 



WlLLOW-TlTMOUSE. 



Parus montanus kleinschmidti Hellmayr, Orn. Jahrb. 

 xi. 1900, p. 212 : Finchley, England. 



Kleinschmidti, named after Otto Kleinschmidt, a German ornithologist. 



