TITMICE AND THRUSHES. 75 
The nest of the great tit, like that of most of its 
tribe, is formed of moss with a lining of feathers, and 
is placed in a hole in a tree, or some similar situation. 
The eggs, from six to nine in number, are white, 
spotted and speckled with red. 
The Blue Tit, a more common, and consequently 
more familiar species than the preceding, resembles 
The Blue Tit. 
it in many respects, although the two birds cannot 
well be confounded with one another. This is a most 
indefatigable little creature in the great work of insect 
slaughter, especially during the nesting season, at 
which time it has been seen to visit its young, as the 
Rey. F. O. Morris tells us, no less than four hundred 
and seventy-five times in the course of a single day, 
never bringing with it less than one large or two 
