Family PARIDAE. 



Parus major L. — Great Titmouse. 



(Plate 39, fig. a-c). 

 (Snouckaert: Avifauna Neerlandica, p. 29, No. 64). 



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milk-white. 



reddish brown, in light and dark shades. 



17.3 X 13.5 millimetres. 



0.1 gram. 



not specially characterized. 



ovoidal. 



consists of vegetable materials, hair, wool 

 and feathers. 



in holes in trees, walls, posts, etc.; in the 

 sides of forsaken nests of birds of the 

 Corvidae-family, and of Squirrel-nests, etc. 



8-12 (after-set: 6-8). 



end of April— beginning of July. 



about 14 days. 



