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THE COLE TITMOUSE. 



The nest of the Cole Titmouse is generally built in a 

 hole in a tree, or wall, or in the ground,^ and is composed 

 of moss, wool, hair, and feathers. The eggs, which are from 

 six to eight in number, are white, spotted with light red, 

 the spots being somewhat larger than those on the eggs of 

 the Blue Titmouse. 



This species is easily distinguished from the Marsh 

 Titmouse, which it resembles, by the former having a white 

 patch on the nape, and white spots on the wing coverts. 



1 Mr. William Evans discovered a Cole Titmouse's nest in a hole in the 

 bank by the side of the small stream which flows past the gamekeeper's house 

 at Paxton, on 12th June 1887. It had young. 





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