LONG-TAILED TIT. 379 
wall. Mr. Eyton includes it in his Catalogue of the Birds 
of Shropshire and North Wales; and Mr. W. Thompson 
says it is diffused in Iveland through the wooded districts 
of the north particularly, but not in great numbers. It 
is found also in all the counties north of London, from 
Middlesex to Northumberland; and Mr. Macgillivray 
mentions its occurrence in the vicinity of Edinburgh. It 
is resident all the year in Sweden; and inhabiting Siberia 
and Russia, is spread southward over the whole Kuropean 
continent even to Italy, and about Palermo in Sicily, where 
it is also common, and resident all the year. It is observed 
to be particularly abundant in Holland; and M. Temminck 
includes it in his Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 
The beak is black; the irides hazel; the top of the 
head, nape, and cheeks greyish white; over the eye, and 
descending from thence over the ear-coverts, is a black 
stripe, narrow, and sometimes said to be entirely wanting 
in old males, but broader in females; on the upper part of 
the back a triangular patch of black, one pomt of which 
is directed downwards; the shoulders, scapularies, and 
part of the rump, tinged with rose red; wing-coverts 
black ; wing-primaries greyish black; the tertials broadly 
edged with white; upper tail-coverts black; the three 
pair of central tail-feathers very long and black; the 
next three pair each half an inch shorter than the feather 
on the same side which precedes it, and all six are black 
on the inner web, and white on the outer; the whole of 
the under surface of the body greyish white; the sides, 
flanks, and under tail-coverts, tinged with rose colour ; 
under surface of the body, greyish white ; legs, toes, and 
claws, almost black. 
The whole length of the bird about five inches and a half. 
From the carpal joint to the end of the wing two inches 
