122 BIED NOTES 



CHAPTER IX 



February 1890. 



IT is long indeed since I recorded anything anent 

 my birds ; not because they are at all less 

 interesting to me, but because, naturally, the 

 small incidents of their little lives repeat them- 

 selves, and there are but few perhaps that have 

 not been observed and noted either here or else- 

 where. 



Nevertheless, I have been noticing lately some- 

 thing very pretty that I had not before observed. 

 Two little cole tits have been waiting on me for 

 some months past, till we have become excellent 

 friends. They are quite familiar with me, and 

 flutter in my face confidently and closely (the 

 glass between, though), and hang on to the sides 

 of my window till they must know the contents of 

 my room almost as well as I do myself. 



This little pair is a much-attached one ; if one 

 of them comes, the other is sure to be at hand, 

 and to appear before long. The rule is that the 

 cock bird, which is much larger and more strongly 

 marked, and more masculine in manner, should 



