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Parus cristatus. Northekn Crested Titmouse. 



Parus cristatus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 189 : 



Sweden. 



Parus cristatus Linn. ; Gadow, Gat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, p. 27 



(part.). 

 Parus cristatus cristatus Witherhy, British Birds, v. 1911, p. 109. 

 Cristatus = furnished with a crest. 



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

 only known occurrence is from Whitby, Yorkshire, March 

 1872, but other English records o£ Crested Tits probably 

 relate to this form. 



General Distribution. — The Northern Crested Titmouse 

 breeds in Scandinavia, northern Russia, Poland, and eastern 

 Grermany. It is represented in western Germany and western 

 Europe by P- c. mitratus, while a doubtfully distinct form 

 inhabits Spain and Portugal. 



Parus cristatus scoticus. Scottish Ceested 

 Titmouse. 



Lophoplianes cristatus scotica Pm2d^, Journ.f. Ornith. 

 1897, p. 347 : Scotland. 



Parus cristatus Linn. ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, p. 27 

 (part.) ; B. O. TI. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 28 ; Saimders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 111. 



Scoticus = Scottish. 



Distribution. — Confined to Scotland. Besident and common 

 in the pine forests and birch woods of the Spey Valley of i^^ ^^ ^ 

 east Inverness-shire and Morayshire. -^-^V, Iwi^^, 



Genus iEGlTHALUS Hermann, Observ. Zool. 1804, p. 214. 

 Type : yE. eaudatus (Linn.). 



JEgithalos,more correctly JEgifhalus = some small bird, aiyiGaXXos in Aris- 

 totle, JET. A. ix. 15. 2, Aristophanes, 887. 



