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Parus palustris. (Extra-limital.) 

 Parus palustris dresseri. British Maksh- 



TlTMOUSE. 



Parus palustris dresseri Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 ix. 1886, p. 200 : Great Britain. 



Parus palustris Linn. ; Qadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, p. 49 

 (part.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 27 ; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 107. 



Dressen, named after the English ornithologist, Henry Eeles Dresser. 



Distribution. — Resident in England, where it is widely, 

 but in some counties locally, distributed. Not known in 

 Scotland, but is said to bave been formerly a native o£ 

 Ireland. It has recently been introduced into Tipperary. 



It is not known on the Continent of Europe. 



Parus borealis. Northeen Willow-Titmouse. 



Parus borealis Selys-Longchamps, Bull. Ac. Bruxelles, x. 

 2. 1843, p. 28 : Iceland errore, probably from Norway. 



Parus borealis Selys-Longcli. ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 

 1883, p. 51 ; O.-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxiii. 1908, p. 34. 

 Borealis = northern. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. One 

 was obtained in Gloucestershire in March 1907, and others 

 perhaps seen in Hertfordshire in Jan. 1908. 



General Distribution. — The Northern Willow-Tit breeds in 

 Scandinavia, northern and north-western Russia, the Russian 

 Baltic Provinces, and East Prussia. It is a wanderer in 

 winter and has been found in Poland and central Russia. 



Parus borealis kleinschmidti. British 



Willow-Titmouse. 



Parus montanus kleinselnnidti Hellmayr, Orn. Jahrb. 

 xi. 1900, p. 212 : Finchley, England. 



Kleinschmidti, named after Otto Kleinsohmidt, a, German ornithologist. 



