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who kept some young Cole Tits in a cage, observed 
that they were mostly fed with little green cater- 
pillars. 
The nest of the Cole Tit is usually placed in a 
hole in a wall or tree, usually near the bottom, 
sometimes at a considerable distance from the 
entrance—at all events, far enough for both the 
nest and the bird to be quite out of sight: it is 
also occasionally placed amongst the roots of a tree 
or ina mouse hole.* It is made of moss, wool, hair 
and feathers. 
The Cole Tit has the beak black; irides hazel; 
head and back of the neck (except a spot of white on 
the nape) black; cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of the 
throat white; throat black; back, scapulars and tail- 
coverts bluish grey, the feathers—especially those on 
the tail-coverts—margined with yellowish rusty ; tail 
dusky brown; wing-coverts dark lead-colour, and 
both greater and lesser tipped with white, making 
two conspicuous bars of white across the wing; 
quills dusky brown, very slightly margined with 
olive-green ; tertials the same, but tipped with white ;' 
breast and belly white, running into yellowish rusty 
on the flanks; legs, toes and claws black. 
The egg of the Cole Tit is much about the same 
size as that of the Blue Tit, and like it of a white 
ground, with brick-dust-red spots, but the spots 
* Hewitson. 
