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Order T 



Titmouses (German " meise "), though we hope that 

 no one will follow such a practice. Our Long-tailed Tit 

 {Mgithalus caudatus rdseus) is a local race of M. caudatus 



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Long-tailed Tit 



of Europe and Asia, and may also breed in France 

 and the Pyrenees. It is distributed as far north in 

 Scotland as trees occur, and over the rest of the kingdom 

 is very seldom absent, though locally uncommon. The 



