.256 PARUS CRISTATUS. 



[Zoologist, p. 2017]. The nest Avas placed in an old rotten tree 

 about four feet from the ground, [The bird] enters by a small hole 

 similar to the "Woodpecker. The eggs Avere five in number. My 

 brother killed the birds. One of them, the male, I have stuffed ; the 

 other was shot too mucli. ^Ir. St. John saw it the day I set it up.'' 



§ 1060. Four.—Uomy, 1S51. 



A correspondent wrote to me : — '' I have had two of my sons 

 searching for nests, bat they have found none suitable except two 

 Crested Tits' with five eggs in each," These, when they reached me, 

 were nearly all broken, and there were large young birds rotting 

 inside them • however, I have patched up some of them, as they are 

 of such value as authentic British specimens. The nests are neatly 

 made of moss and wool, and are lined with feathers and probably 

 a little of the fur of the Mountain-Hare, The Crested Titmouse 

 was numerous in the forest [where these nests were found], I 

 shot sixteen or seventeen during a short part of the two days I 

 looked for them. They were in company with the Coal- and Long- 

 tailed Titmouse and Golden-crested Wren, Tree-Creepers were also 

 to be seen about, and Common Wrens. I did not find any nests of 

 the Crested Titmouse in this magnificent old forest ; but as only two 

 of the ten birds which I sent to be skinned were females, it is pro- 

 bable that some of them were sitting, and Mr. Lewis Dunbar had 

 found their nests with eggs earlier than this, namely 2—5 May last 

 year, I shewed the keeper's son the difference between the Coal- and 

 the Crested Titmouse, and desired him to take no nest till he saw 

 the old bird enter it, 



[All these eggs are iu wretched condition. The only perfect one of the whole 

 ten was sold at Mr. Stevens's, 30 May, 1860, to Mr. Hudleston.] 



^ 1061. Seven. — Moray, 1854. 

 From the same man, 



§ 1002. jPet;e.— Moray, April, 1854. 



[From, I believe, the same man.] 



[§ 1063. /SVa\— Kahlberg, Pomerania, 21 May, 1862, From 

 Herr Hintz, through Pastor Theobald, 1863. 



Probably the nest mentioned by Herr Hintz in the 'Journal fiir Ornitho- 

 logie ' (1864, p. 46).] 



