64 SIBERIAN TIT. 



The female is rather smaller than the male, having the top of the 

 head and throat of a greyish brown tinged with russet. The young 

 before the first moult are much less russet-coloured above, and of a 

 brown tint, the black feathers of the throat being bordered with grey. 



I am indebted for the male specimen figured to the kindness of Mr. 

 Tristram. The egg is from a specimen kindly sent me by Mr. Alfred 

 Newton, and its authenticity, I need not say, may be entirely relied 

 upon. I have a nest of four taken in South Russia. 



The Siberian Tit has also been figured by Temminck and Laugier, 

 in the Atlas to the Manual, with the remark of the author, that the 

 russet colour of the flanks is deficient, and that of the abdomen and 

 inferior coverts too deep. The tail ought to have been a trifle longer, 

 and more tapering. Buffon, pi. enlum 708, fig. 3; Gould, Birds of 

 Europe, pi. 151, fig. 2; Dresser, B. of E., pi. 44. 



