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where it has been recorded to have been met with 

 as follows : — Sunderland Moor, Durham (Ormsby's 

 ' Sketches of Durham'); Gosforth, Cumberland, 

 ('Zoologist,' 1854, p. 4167); Yorkshire (Lewin's 

 ' British Birds,' v. p. 46); Aldeburgh, Suffolk (Hele's 

 ' Notes about Aldeburgh,' p. 82) ; Blackheath, Kent ; 

 and Kingsbury, Middlesex (Harting's ' Birds of Mid- 

 dlesex,' p. 56) ; Christchurch, Hants (Wise's ' New 

 Forest,' p. 314); and Isle of Wight (More in Venable's 

 ' Guide to the Isle of Wight '). 



Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser, in their ' Birds of Eu- 

 rope,' mention two specimens killed in Ireland, on the 

 authority of Mr. Blake Knox. 



COAL TITMOUSE. Parus ater, Linnaeus. 

 Resident, and generally distributed. 



MAESH TITMOUSE. Parus palustris, Linnaeus. 



Resident, but scarce in Scotland, where it is found 

 chiefly in the Lothians. 



LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. Acredula rosea (Blyth). 



Resident, and generally distributed. The propriety 

 of separating the Long-tailed Tits from the true Pari 

 has been long since admitted by naturalists ; and, as 

 Dr. Giinther has pointed out (' Ibis,' 1865, p. 97), the 

 employment of the generic term Acredula of Koch 

 to designate the former group is strictly in accordance 



