NEW BRITISH BIRD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 11 February 1911, Page 10

NEW BRITISH BIRD.

: YELLOW COAL-TIT FOUND" IN . ' •■■•; ■ 'SLIGO. Mr. Collingwood Ingram, a well-known naturalist, has discovered in tho pino woods of County Sligo, Ireland, an entirely now indigenous bird to bo added to tho list of British birds. Such an event has'not occurred for nearly fifty years. ■ ".The new bird is allied to the coal-tit (Parus ater), which, although it is distributed throughout tho world in varied forms, in no instance has a distinctive variation so pronounced n3 in the new species, in which tho parts of the plumago that in all other coal-tita are pure White assume a clear sulphurous yellow, hue. Thcso parts are the checks and a spot on tho back of the neck. Mr. Louis Wain, who ha 9 given the "Daily Mail" particulars of tho new bird on the authority of Sir William Ingram, states that the bird's variation of colour is in no way an abnormality,confined to one individual, as Mr. Ingram found all the coal-tits of the district whero ho mado his 'discovery characterised in tho same manner. A specimen has been examined by the Natural History Museum authorities; who have given the bird its specific name of Pni'iis Hibernicus (Irish tit). Mr. Ingram, who is a member of tho British Ornithological Union, has already discovered. several new species of birds in other parts of flip world.