. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . e of 430 PARUS FRINGILLAGO. the Nuthatch as not to be distinguished. Indeed the Nut-hatch is most intimately allied to the Tits in more importantmatters, both its form and habits being very similar. The Great Titmouse is generally distributed in the woodedand cultivated districts, both in England and in Scotland; butis rare in the northern part
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . e of 430 PARUS FRINGILLAGO. the Nuthatch as not to be distinguished. Indeed the Nut-hatch is most intimately allied to the Tits in more importantmatters, both its form and habits being very similar. The Great Titmouse is generally distributed in the woodedand cultivated districts, both in England and in Scotland; butis rare in the northern parts of the latter country. It is resi-dent with us, but shifts about from place to place in the winterseason. On the Continent it is said to occur as far north asNorway, Sweden, and Siberia, and to extend to its southernboundaries. Young.—When fiilly fledged, the young resemble the adult,but have the tints much duller, and the dark medial band onthe breast less extended. Remarks.—All the Tits have a kind of broad festoon on theedge of the mandible, beneath the nostrils, and this species,being the largest, shews it more conspicuously. 431 PARUS C(ERULEUS. THE BLUE TIT. BLUE TITMOUSE. TOMTIT. BLUE-CAP. BLUE-BONNET. Fig. 182. Parus coeruleus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 341. Parus coeruleus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 566. Blue Titmouse. Mont. Orn. Diet. M^sange bleue. Parus coeruleus. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 289. Blue Titmouse. Parus coeruleus. Selb. lUustr. I. 235. Parus coeruleus. Blue Titmouse. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 122. Upper part of the head light blue encircled with white, a handround the neck, and the spaces before and behind the eye of aduller blue, the cheeks white, the back light yellowish-green, thelower parts pale greyish-yellow, the middle of the breast dull blue. Male.—The Blue Tit is the most familiar, perhaps the mostlively species of the genus, and by many is considered as themost beautiful. It is of a remarkably short and compact form,its head la
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