20 RESIDENTS AND MIGEANTS. 



Fam. CEKTHIID^. 

 TEEE CEEEPEE. CertUa famiUaris, Linnaeus. 

 Resident and generally distributed. 



Fam. SITTID^. 



NUTHATCH. Sitta ccesia, Meyer. 



Eesident in England, rare in Scotland, and not found 

 in Ireland. The Scandinavian Nuthatch described 

 by Linnaeus (Syst. Nat. i. p. 177) as Sitta europoea, 

 differs from that found in Great Biitain; and the 

 latter, therefore, should be distinguished as Sitta 

 ccesia, that being the oldest name applied (by Meyer, 

 Taschenb. Deutsch. Vogel, i. p. 128) to the same bird 

 as observed in Germany. 



Fam. PARIDtE. 



GEEAT TITMOUSE. Parus major, Linnaeus. 

 Resident and common. 



BLUE TITMOUSE. Parus cceruleus, Linnaeus. 

 Resident and common. 



CEESTED TITMOUSE. Parus cristatus, Linnaeus. 



Resident in the counties of Moray, Ross, Inverness, 

 Elgin, Banff, and Aberdeen. For fuller particulars of 

 its distribution in Scotland, see Gray's ' Birds of the 

 West of Scotland,' p. 104. It is rare in England, 



