60 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



the Island this last summer, 1878, I only saw two 

 or three Great Tits, and this quite agrees with 

 my experience in June and July, 1866, and at 

 other times. 



The Great Tit is included in Professor Ansted's 

 list, but only marked by him as occurring in Sark. 



48. BLUE TIT. Parus ccendeiis, Linnaeus. French, 

 " Mesange bleue." Like the Great Tit, the Blue 

 Tit is resident in all the Islands, but by no means 

 numerous. In Guernsey it is pretty generally dis- 

 tributed over the more cultivated parts, but nowhere 

 so numerous as in England. It is included in 

 Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring 

 in Guernsey and Sark. 



I have not included either the Cole Tit or the 

 Marsh Tit in this list, as I have never seen either 

 bird in the Islands, and have not been able to find 

 that they are at all known either in Guernsey or 

 any of the other Islands. 



Professor Ansted, however, includes the Cole Tit 

 in his list, and marks it as occurring in Guernsey, 

 but no other information whatever is given about 

 it ; and there is no specimen in the Museum, as 

 there is of both the Great and the Blue Tits. I 

 have not succeeded in getting a specimen myself. 



