XXXI. BLUE TIT. 



(Parus cceruleus.} 



THE Blue Tit is common here. It is active and various in its 

 attitudes; has a pale yellow breast and blue bonnet, and is 

 altogether a very attractive little bird. It is quite worth while 

 to hang out a half cocoanut at the window for them to pick at. 

 They also will eat meat or pick a bone, holding it with their 

 claws as the other Tits do. 



They were done from live birds, caught in winter, and kept 

 in a cage for a few days to have their attitudes studied and their 

 portraits taken, when they were let go again. 



Besides the Blue Tit, we have observed the Great Tit or 

 Ox-eye, the Cole Tit, and the Long-tailed Tit in Moidart, but 

 no other paridce. 



I have placed them on boughs of larch in flower, when the 

 leaf -buds are just bursting, and while the last year's cones are 

 still adhering. 



