58 PARID2E. 



Distribution. Resident and confined to the mainland of 

 Great Britain, where it is widely but locally distributed as 

 far north as the Moray Firth. 



Parus caeruleus. CONTINENTAL BLUE TITMOUSE. 



Parus ceeruleus Lmnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 190 : 

 Sweden. 



Parus czeruleus Linn. ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, p. 12 

 (part.) ; Bonhote, Bull. B. O. C. xxvii. 1911, p. 101. 



Cseruleus = blue. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 once been observed in the British Islands, namely in Peeble- 

 shire, Sept. 1895. 



General Distribution. The typical form of the Blue Tit 

 breeds throughout continental Europe, south of about 64 N. 

 latitude in Sweden and 60 N. in Russia, with the exception 

 of Spain, some of the Mediterranean Islands, and apparently 

 eastern Russia, where it is replaced by allied forms, as is also 

 the case in the Canary Islands, north-west Africa, and Persia. 



Parus caeruleus obscurus. BRITISH BLUE 

 TITMOUSE. 



Parus ceeruleus obscurus Prazdk, Orn. Jahrb. v. 1894, 

 p. 246 : England. 



Parus cseruleus Linn. ; Gadoio, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, p. 12 

 (part.); B. 0. V. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 27; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 109. 



Obscurus = dusky. 



Distribution. Resident, common and generally distributed, 

 but local in the wilder districts of Scotland. It is unknown 

 in the Outer Hebrides and Shetland Islands, and does not 

 occur outside the British Islands. 



