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It proved to be a male bird : we may fairly presume that others 

 of the remaining eight individuals were of this sex. 



A friend residing in Ayr-shire has frequently seen families of 

 long- tailed titmice on the banks of the Stinchar, and in other 

 wooded parts of that county. At the end of September, 1842, Mr. 

 E. Ball observed about ten or twelve in company, in the wood 

 adjacent to the canal at Fort-Augustus, Inverness-shire. Mr. 

 Macgillivray mentions, that the species has been met with in the 

 adjoining and more northern county of Boss-shire. 



THE BEARDED TIT. 



Calamojphilus biarmicus, Linn, (sp.) 

 Parus „ „ 



Is believed to have been once obtained in Ireland. 



I have never seen a native individual of this bird, and can only 

 repeat the short notice of it, as Irish, communicated by me to the 

 Zoological Society of London in 1834. " Mr. W. S. Wall, bird- 

 preserver, Dublin, who is very conversant with British birds, 

 assures me, that he received a specimen of this Parus from the 

 neighbourhood of the river Shannon a few years since." Zool. 

 Proc, 1834, p. 30. The species was determined from Bewick's 

 characteristic wood-cut. In March, 1833, when I first became 

 acquainted with my informant, he told me of its occurrence four 

 or five years before that period : the bird being only wounded, 

 was kept alive for some time. 



This species is permanently resident where it occurs in England, 

 but, according to Yarrell, is not known north of Lincolnshire. 



