GKANlVOllvE. 
Family FAlilDJE. ( Bonaparte.) 
Genus Paiius. ( lAnnceua.) 
SIIffiRIAN Tl^r 
Paras Siblricas. 
Pants Sibiricus, 
Peecilia Sihirica, 
Gmelin and Authors. 
Kaup. Bonaparte. 
Oe the French. 
Of the Germans. 
IMesange de Siberie, 
Sibirische Meise, 
Specific Characters. — Tliroat black; top of bead brown; cbest 
and abdomen russet. Length four inches and nine-tenths; carpus 
to tip two inches and a half; tail two inches and a half; beak 
two-fifths of an inch; tarsus three-fifths of an inch. 
The Siberian Tit, as its name implies, is a northern 
species, being found only in the boreal regions of 
Europe and Asia, visiting, during winter, some of the 
provinces of Russia. It also inhabits Lapland, where 
it was discovered nesting by the late much lamented 
John Wolley. According to this gentleman it is the 
only species which breeds in the Muonioniska district 
of Finnish Lapland. In his catalogue for 1858, four 
eggs are inserted as having been obtained at Mokhajerri, 
from a nest made with the hairs of mice. Mr. Wolley 
remarks that P. borealis is seldom seen in Lapland, 
