. British birds. Birds. B. Tails of (a) British Willow Tit; (b) British Marsh Tit. The first discovery of the Willow Tit as a British bird was made by Pastor Kleinschmidt and Dr. Hartert in 1897, when they found, mixed up with the skins of Parus palustris dresseri in the British Museum, two skins from Hampstead which were undoubtedly Willow Tits. The Tring Museum received two specimens in the same year, killed in Coalfall Wood, near Pinchley, the well- known suburb of London. One of these specimens is the type of Hellmayr's Parus atricapillus Meinschmidti, which is distinguishable from P.
. British birds. Birds. B. Tails of (a) British Willow Tit; (b) British Marsh Tit. The first discovery of the Willow Tit as a British bird was made by Pastor Kleinschmidt and Dr. Hartert in 1897, when they found, mixed up with the skins of Parus palustris dresseri in the British Museum, two skins from Hampstead which were undoubtedly Willow Tits. The Tring Museum received two specimens in the same year, killed in Coalfall Wood, near Pinchley, the well- known suburb of London. One of these specimens is the type of Hellmayr's Parus atricapillus Meinschmidti, which is distinguishable from P. a. borealis—the Continental form—by its much darker coloration and considerably smaller size. Since then a fair number of Willow Tits liave been obtained in Great Britain, though the bird is evidently a rare form in our islands. The eggs appear to differ from those of the Marsh Tit by the larger and paler brick-red spots at the larger Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Witherby & Co
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