THE WHITE-HEADED 

 LONG-TAILED TIT. 



{^githalus vagans.) 



' I "HE Tits are an interesting family of birds 

 ■*■ to study, for they are numerous in the 

 British Islands, amusing in their habits, of pretty 

 coloration, and are capable of being trained into 

 an exhibition of confidence, that renders them 

 as entertaining as if they were kept in a cage. 

 Thus much one may say for the British species, 

 but when we come to talk of the Tits of the 

 World, they are among the most difficult of all 

 families of birds to study. Climate changes them, 

 altitude affects their coloration, till in some 

 genera they present form upon form, all closely 

 allied, but having certain definiteness of colour 



