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details of furnishing are left to the female. It is evident 

 from the many cases that have been brought to my 

 notice, that the cock Bearded Tit sometimes makes a 

 muddle of this, and in adding the hning occasionally 

 covers up one or tvt^o eggs altogether, which may be found 

 embedded in the nest after the young have flown. 



BEARDED TIT: CLEAXIXG THE NEST. 

 {Photographed by Miss E. L. Turner.) 



I once rescued two pairs of Bearded Tits from a London 

 dealer and transferred them to an outside aviary until 

 I could take them to Norfolk. During the three months 

 I kept these birds in captivity they seemed to me quite 

 the most affectionate species imaginable. They roosted 

 side by side, and the cock always spread one wing over 



