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Le Melange Puppee. Br if. Om. 3. p. 558. N° 8. 



Buff. Oif V. '). 447 .— P/. £«/. 502. / 2. 



The Crefled Titmoufe is fo very rarely found in this country, that 

 neither Latham or Pennant has defcribed it as a Britifh fpecies; nor 

 has the latter included it in the Appendix of the BrituV Zoology^ 

 among the foreign birds which vifit us at unftated periods. 



It is met with in many parts of Franc e, particularly in Normandy ^ 

 and the intermediate country between that and Sweden ; writers concur 

 that it is of a very folitary difpofition, never mixing with other birds, 

 nor jn numbers even with its own fpecies; it is chiefly found among 

 the e.ver-green trees in the deep and gloomy recefTes of exteniive fo- 

 refts, and is therefore little known even in thofe parts where the fpe- 

 cies is moft frequent, 



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Walcot mentions that they are fometimes feen in Scotland^ and once 

 vifited that country in a large flock ; the fpecimen from which our 

 figure is copied was fhot in Scotland alfo, in company with feveral 

 others in the year 1792, 



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