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PARIDJE. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



THE CRESTED TIT. 

 Parus cristatus. 



Parus cristatus, Crested Titmouse, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 542. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 284. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 81. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 243. 



JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 122. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 



,, Mesange huppee, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 290. 



THE CRESTED TIT appears to be as rare as a British 

 Bird as the two species of Tits already described are 

 common, and the authorities for its capture are but few. 

 John Walcott, Esq. in the second volume of his Synopsis 

 of British Birds, published in 1789, says, "this bird has 



