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covered with a cap of shining hlack feathers, the 

 cheeks are white and the under parts are dull white, 

 tinged lower down with yellow. 



The nest is more carefully made than others of its 

 kind, and formed of moss, wool, grass, willow catkins, 

 horsehair and any other soft material, and is placed 

 in the hollow of a tree. Sometimes this little bird 



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will bore out a hole for itself, in which case it is always 

 round, like the Woodpecker's. 



The eggs, five to eight, roundish in form, are white, 

 spotted with light red, generally most so at the thicker 

 end ; in some the spots are large, in some very minute. 

 Montague remarks that the eggs of the Titmice are so 

 similar as only to be distinguished by size and weight, 

 and it is almost impossible to separate them when 



