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saw a single specimen shot near Tangier about the 20th 
of April, the only one I heard of on the African side. 
Family Troglodytid^. 
114. Troglodytes parvulus, Koch. The Wren. 
Spanish. Cucito, Ratilla. 
" Resident near Tangier, and numerous, nesting from 
March to June. Some are migratory, arriving in November, 
leaving again in February." — Favier. 
The above remarks equally apply to the Wren on the 
Spanish side, where it is most abundant in winter. It nests 
very early ; and I have seen j'^oung fully able to fly on the 
26th of April. They are resident on " the Rock." 
It is very curious that this little bird should be a resident 
in the scorching sun of Morocco and Andalucia as well as 
in the bitter cold of the hills in Inverness-shire, where they 
are one of the very few birds which remain to brave the 
winter. 
Family Parid^e. 
115. AcREDULA iRBii, Sharpe and Dresser. The Spanish 
Long-tailed Titmouse. 
Spatiish. Mito. 
This little bird is only to be found around Gibraltar in the 
cork-wood of Almoraima, chiefly keeping to the sotos and to 
the district round the Mill, the Long Stables, and the second 
venta. Similar in its habits to the British species [Acredula 
vagans) , the nest and eggs are also exactly the same as those 
of that bird. I found the young able to fly by the middle of 
April, and on the 12th of that month found a nest with seven 
young fully fledged ; this would make the date of laying 
about the 20th of February. The nests, without exception, 
were all built in the thorny creeper (called Zarzaparilla by 
the Spaniards), which forms regular net- or lattice- work walls 
from the ground to the lower branches of the trees, and is 
usually placed about 15-16 feet from the ground. The nests 
are very difficult to get at, the only way being either to cut 
or shoot away the creepers above it — often no easy matter. 
The only eggs which I obtained were addled ones, left in 
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