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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE CRESTED TITMOUSE. Parus cristatus, Linnaeus. It seems probable that the Crested Titmouse has been for ages a resident species in the old forests of Scotland, which now survive principally in the valley of the Spey. Probably the bird does not breed at the present time outside Strathspey. It has occurred in Perthshire in winter, but, as a rule, it wanders little from its usual haunts, and one recorded example in Argyll and another near Dumbarton, appear to be the only instances in Southern Scotland. In England few of the cases on record can be substantiated, but there need be little doubt that from time to time a wanderer arrives from the Continent. A bird in the Museum of Whitby, Yorkshire, was obtained in that vicinity in March 1872, and one, examined by Mr. E. Butterfield, was shot in August 1887 near Keighley, in the same county ; one appears to have been killed in Suffolk about 1873, two or three have been taken in the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, and Baron A. von Hijgel observed a bird at Bourne- mouth on March 26th 1874. For details, a careful paper by Mr. J. H. Gurney (Zool. 1890, p. 210) may be consulted. It is not remarkable that the Crested Titmouse should occasion- ally visit England, for it is resident in Normandy; while it breeds

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