BRITISH LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 29 



below the iron girders of a railway bridge was selected. The exact 

 localities are not given for obvious reasons. Its mode of nidification, 

 the character of its song, and its personal bearing, much resemble the 

 Wren, but it is a much larger bird. " It sings more often," says Mr. 

 Evans, " in the days of the declining autumn, or in the dark ones of 

 winter, than in the bright and stirring season of the opening spring. 

 The song is peculiarly expressive of wild and lonely enjoyment." 



Whei-e the young stream is gushing 



From its lone fountain head ; 

 Where the wild river's rushing 



Down o'er its rocky bed ; 



There is my lonely home. 



Evans— Sonrjs of the Birds. 



It has been known to sing in the hardest frost, perched on a 

 stone at the bottom of a weir. 



[CiNCLus MELANOGASTER — Black-bcllied Dipper.] 

 Norfolk, Yorkshire, and Ireland. 



[Family — Panurid^e.] 



[Genus — Panurus.] 



[Panurus biarmicus — Bearded Titmouse.] 



Confined to Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. 



Family — Parid^. 



Genus — Acredula. 



[Acredula caudata — White-headed Long-tailed Titmouse. 



Accidentally met with on East Coast of Britain. 



ACREDULA ROSEA— British Long-tailed Titmouse. 



The Long-tailed Tit, or " Bottle Tit," as Herefordshire 

 boys call this bird, from the shape of its nest, is a common and 

 constant resident in the county. Another familar local name is 

 also " Mummiruffin " or " Mumruffin." 



