NOTES ON BIRDS. 55 



Long- Tailed Tit's nest, about fifty yards from the Magpie's nest, 

 pulled down from a fir tree and lying scattered about with broken 

 eggs near it. I think the boy must have pulled it down, as the nest 

 was quite warm and the bird was flying about. I was very much 

 struck with the enormous number of feathers with which the nest had 

 been lined, there were hundreds of them lying about. The nest of 

 this bird is quite oval with a hole in the top or side, about six inches 

 long and four broad. As the bird's tail is of an extraordinary length, 

 as long or longer than its body, I do not quite see what the bird does 

 wiih it when on the nest, unless it leaves it sticking out of the 

 opening. 



