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MARSH TITMOUSE. 
the latter nearly joining with the black of the 
nape, and enclosing an irregular patch of white 
on the sides of the neck and cheeks ; on the nape 
a spot or patch of white. Back and scapulars 
greenish gray, tinged on the rump with yellowish ; 
wings and tail gray, the inner webs of the feathers 
of the latter hair brown ; the covers tipped with 
ash gray ; the under parts grayish white, tinted 
with yellowish on the flanks ; plumage of the 
female very nearly similar. Length about four 
inches. 
The Marsh Titmouse — Paros palustris, 
Will. Linn. — Pants palustris, Will. Linn. — 
La Nonnctte Cendree, Buff. — Marsh Titmouse, 
or Tit of British Authors. — This bird is un- 
doubtedly the most unfrequently met with of 
those species which have been, generally speak- 
ing, accounted common. In the district where 
we have been for many years attending to 
ornithology, it has decreased, and is at present a 
rare bird, an occurrence which we cannot satis- 
factorily account for, as its former localities have 
not been so much changed in character as to 
drive them entirely away. Our modern British 
ornithologists all agree in considering the Marsh 
Titmouse as less abundant than any of the pre- 
ceding species. The common call-note is so 
peculiar that it can never be mistaken, and its 
unfrequency cannot be attributed to its being 
confounded from similarity of appearance with 
