L O N G - T A I L E D T I T.
P.LRUA CAUDATUS.
Tni: Long-failed Titmouse may lie observed in greater or smaller numbers in most English counties. In
Scotland it also oeeurs, though I have seldom noticed it in the Northern Highlands.
The elaborately-constructed nest of this species is well known to even the most juvenile of egg-eollectors.
In its position ir varies considerably, be
furze bush
If I remember right, I lit:
There are some cur
a couple of apertures are
tails, their heads being r
other. This, I fancy, is
presence can only be ac
r at a height of twenty o
:ed within a yard of the ground in some prickly
thirty feet iti the branches of some lofty tree.
siderable clc\ mile-
Ih'rtllC
aus descriptions gh
left, by which mean
sported to look out
simply imagination
counted for by the
are built into the
e hole while thei:
; if two
injury th
of thc exterior is certain
nests removed froia oak-hi
with a couplo of entráñeos.
These birds aro seldor
keeping company till thc Ü]
Strange ñames are oftc
distríets. The Long-tailcd Tit
•ious publications. It has been staled that
? able to dispose comfortably of their long
ludal appendages protrude from the
iave been found in one nest, their
fcred by removal from its original
aken, however carefully, some part
Lsidcrcd natural. I have examined
ave been furnished by the builders
tioed singly during autumn or winter, the
leh of the following spring. They also ocen
red on the various members of the Titm.
commonly known as the " Hot tie-Tit,'
beste
families of the precedió
lionally join in considerable Soaks,
use family by the natives of country
and also as the "Feather-poke,"
both these titles being apparently given on account of the manner in which this species constructs its nest.
I n the east of Norfolk the Tflue Tit is invariably called the " rickehcese," while the Great Tit is known ns
the " Saw-sharper," the latter bird in Sussex being not on frequently styled thc " Tinker"—these three names,
without doubt, being derived from the call-notes of the birds. In many parts I have found thc whole family
of thc I'aridie known solely as Tom Tits; this, however, does not refer to the east of Norfolk, where that name
is given to the Common Wren, 1 was surprised to lind that many of the country people in that district, who
cam a considerable amount of money by egg-collecting and are unusually well up in the knowledge of birds,
were quite unacquainted with either the Coal or Marsh Tits.