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coppice or thicket towards the evening-, but separate again on the ap- 

 proach of day. When reclaimed it becomes very docile, and seems to 

 have its natural faculties heightened by domestication, imitating the 

 human voice, and various other sounds. 



MAGPIE DIVER.— A name for the Smew. 



MALDUCK.— A name for the Fulmer. 



MALMARSH.— A name for the Fulmer. 



MALLARD.— A name for the Duck. 



MANX PETREL.— A name for the Shearwater. 



MARKET JEW.— A name for the Chough. 



MARSH HARRIER.— A name for the Moor Buzzard. 



MARSH HEN. — A name for the Willock. 



MARSH TIT (Partis palustris, LiNNiEus.) 



*Parus palustris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 341. Q.—Gmel. Syst.l. p. 1009. sp. 8.— Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 565. sp. 9.—Raii, Syn. p. 73. A. 3.— Will. p. 175. t. 43.— 

 Briss. 3. p. 555. 7. — Parus atricapillus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1008. sp. 6. — Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 2. p. 566. sp. 10 La Nonnette cendree, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 403.— 16. 



pi. Enl. 3. f. 3. — Le Mesange a tSte noir du Canada, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 408. — 

 Mesange Nonnette, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 291. — Sumpfmeise, Bechst. Na- 

 turg. Dent. 3. p. 874.— Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 271— Frisch, t. 13. f. 2. 

 B. — Marsh Titmouse, or Black Cap, Br. Zool. 2. No. 165. t. 57. f. 4.— Arct. 

 Zool. 2. p. 427. E. — Will. (Angl.) p. 241. t. 43.— Lath. Syn. 4. p. 541. 8.— 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. 2.—Lewin's Br. Birds, 3. t. 119.— Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 10. 

 — Bewick's Br. Birds. — Shaw's Zool. 10. p. 56. — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 80. — 

 Canada Titmouse, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 328.— Lath. Syn. 4. p. 548. 9.*—Selby, pi. 

 51. fig. 4. p. 230.* 



Provincial. — Little Black-headed Tomtit. 



The length of this species is about four inches and a half ; weight 

 two drams and a half. The bill is dusky ; irides dark hazel. Crown 

 of the head black, but not glossy ; cheeks of a dirty white ; chin black, 

 in some spotted with white ; the back of a rusty grey ; breast and belly 

 of a light brownish buff-colour ; quills and tail bluish grey, lightest on 

 their outer margins ; legs lead-colour. 



We must here again remark, that this species is not to be confounded 

 with the cole tit. If no other marks of distinction were wanting than 

 the white on the back of the head and wing coverts, it would be suf- 

 ficient ; but this is a larger bird, the colour on the back is not of that 

 bluish cast, and the tail is longer. 



We shall, however, refer our reader to the history of that species, 

 where we have more copiously defined the distinction. 



The Marsh Tit has more the habits of the blue species, partaking 

 with it of flesh, and attending the oat ricks. It appears partial to low 

 wet ground, where old willow trees abound, in the holes of which it 

 ^equently makes its nest. In such situations it finds a plentiful supply 

 °* "~>od, which consists, during the greater part of the year, of insects 



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