374 PARID A. 
of time. A young ornithological friend of mine has given 
me a list of birds observed by himself in Kensington Gar- 
dens, including near seventy species; an unusually large 
number for so limited a locality in such a situation. The 
five species of Tits, Just referred to, are included in this 
list; these birds are probably attracted to this spot by 
the insect food to be found about old trees in various 
stages of decay, a London atmosphere being unfavourable 
to healthy vegetation. 
From London westward, the Marsh Tit may be traced, 
to Cornwall and Wales. In Ireland, according to Mr. 
Thompson, this bird has been killed in the Phenix Park, 
near Dublin; in the county of Kildare; in the vicinity 
of Belfast, and in the county of Donegal. From London 
northward, it may be traced through Essex, Suffolk, Nor- 
folk, and Lincolnshire. I have been favoured with a Ca- 
talogue of the Birds of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, by Mr. 
Neville Wood, and the Rev. Orpen Morris, and these 
sources of information have been frequently quoted: from 
the first I learn, in the present imstance, that the Marsh 
Tit is abundant in Derbyshire, and from the second, that 
it is also common in Yorkshire. Mr. Selby includes it 
in his Catalogue of the Birds of Durham and Northum- 
berland ; and Mr. Macgillivray has noticed it near Edin- 
burgh. From the works of Muller, Brunnich, and M. 
Nilsson, this bird appears to be resident in Denmark, Nor- 
way, and Sweden, and remains even in Russia and Si- 
beria all the year. It is dispersed over the Kuropean con- 
tinent ; and, as might be expected, is more abundant in 
Holland than elsewhere. It is resident also all the year - 
as far south as Provence, Italy, and Sicily; but is not 
very common. 
The Marsh Tit is immediately distinguished from the 
