GRANIVORJE. 



Family PARIBJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Parus. (Linnaeus. J 



SIBERIAN TIT. 



Partis Sibiricus. 



Parus Sibiricus, Gmelin and Authors. 



Tmcilia Sibirica, Kaup. Bonaparte. 



Mesange de Siberie, Of the French. 



Sibirische Meise, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Throat black; top of head brown; chest 

 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, 



