THE GREAT TIT. 
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Great Tit, instantly recognised it, and said that one wliicli he 
caught in a harn about harvest time, on being put into a cage, 
soon hecaine very tame, eating almost anything he offered. 
It was ke])t in close confinement for about a fortnight, and one 
morning it managed to escape ; hut in the evening, confidently 
entering a neighbour’s cottage, it was shut in and hunted to 
death by the children. It is singular that during so sliort a 
time such perfect familiarity had been acquired ; hut it is quite 
probable that the voices of children, of wdiom there w^ere several 
in its late home, had led it to venture within the doorway. 
THE BLUE TIT. 
Petrus cceruleus. 
But one examjDle of this, the only Tit observed in Orkney, is 
recorded by Messrs Baikie and Heddle. It is very scarce in 
Shetland, and occurs at uncertain intervals, and, so far as T can 
hear, Unst is the only island of the group in which it has been 
observed. The first example I saw was kindly given to me by 
Mr Edmondston of Buness, who shot it in his garden in April 
1860. 
It is said, but upon very doubtful authority, to have bred in 
the island of Bressay. 
THE LOHG-TAILED TIT. 
Pams caudatus. 
About the middle of April 1860, I saw four, probably 
members of the same family, in the garden at Halligarth ; but 
I have never seen any other in Shetland. As no Tits of any 
kind are mentioned in Captain Feilden’s Faroe list, and but 
one example of one species has occurred in Orkney, the occur- 
rence of three species in Unst alone appears somewhat un- 
accountable. I can only in part solve the difficulty by calling 
