BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 61 



49. LONG-TAILED TIT. A credula caudata, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Mesange a longue queue." * The Long- 

 tailed Tit is certainly far from common in Guernsey 

 at present, and I have never seen it in the Islands 

 myself. But Mr. MacCulloch writes me word 

 " The Long-tailed Tit is, or ot least was, far from 

 uncommon. Probably the destruction of orchards 

 may have rendered it less common. The nest was 

 generally placed in the forked branch of an apple- 

 tree, and so covered with grey lichens as to be 

 almost indistinguishable. I remember, in my youth, 

 finding a nest in a juniper-bush." 



It is included in Professor Ansted's list, and 

 marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There 

 is, however, no specimen now in the Museum. 



I am very doubtful as to whether I ought to 

 include the Bearded Tit, Panurus biarmicus of 

 Linnaeus, in this list. There are a pair in the 

 Museum, but these may have been obtained in 

 France or England. One of Mr. De Putron's men, 

 however, described a bird he had shot in the reeds 

 in Mr. De Putron's pond in the Vale, and certainly 



* This name of Temminck is no doubt applied to the 

 Continental form, Acredula caudata, of Linnaeus, not to 

 the British form now elevated into a species under the name 

 Acredula rosea, of Blyth. Owing to want of specimens I 

 have not been able to say to which form the Channel Island 

 Long-tailed Tit belongs, probably supposing them to be 

 really distinct from A. rosea. A. caudatam&j, however, also 

 occur, as both forms do occasionally, in the British Islands. 



