MARSH TIT. COAL TIT. 
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" Besides this species {Pams major), there is also the cole tit- 
mouse, the blackcap, the blue titmouse or nun, and the long-tailed 
titmouse.” (vol. ii. p. 340, 2nd edit.) If we take for granted 
that the term “ blackcap ” is correctly applied to a Pams, the 
marsh titmouse must be considered the one meant. In very few 
instances has this bird occurred to me around Belfast, and not in 
any other locality. By two ornithological friends it has once or 
twice been met with here, and though within a few miles of the 
town, the localities and times of its appearance to them and myself 
were always different : — it was observed at the various seasons of 
the year. The marsh tit has been seen by R. Ball, Esq., only 
about Ballitore in the county of Kildare. In the collection of 
T. W. Warren, Esq., of Dublin, a native specimen is preserved, 
which was shot in the Phoenix Park near that city. Mr. Davis 
of Clonmel, informed me in May 1844, that some eggs which had 
been sent to him from the vicinity of Clogheen, county of Tippe- 
rary, on being submitted to Mr. Hewitson, were considered to be 
of this species.* 
It is said to be found over England. When walking through 
the beautiful plantations about Twizell House, Northumberland, 
in the month of September, with Mr. Selby, this bird appeared quite 
common, and was stated to be so there at all seasons. About 
Jardine Hall, Dumfries -shire, on the contrary, as I was informed 
when there in October 1845, it is now considered only as an 
occasional visitant, generally appearing in the winter season. Mr. 
Macgillivray is “ not aware of its having been met with farther 
north [in Scotland] than Eifeshire,” vol. ii. p. 446. 
THE COAL TIT. 
Pams ater, Linn. 
Is common in Ireland. 
Montagu and Selby remark, that this species is less numerous in 
England than the P. palustris : but the relative proportion between 
* Mr. Yarrell, by mistake, states on my authority, that it has been met with in 
Donegal. It may not improbably yet be found there. 
