THE TITS 



1627 



and shrill call note almost without cessation, this tit builds a beautiful nest composed 

 of moss, interwoven with wool and feathers, and exquisitely trimmed on the ex- 

 terior with gray and white lichens; the interior of the structure being copiously 

 lined with a variety of soft feathers. A peculiarly-shaped nest of this tit taken in 



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WHITE-HEADED LONG-TAILED TlT. 

 (Three-fourths natural size.) 



Denmark, resembled in shape a plain honey jar, placed horizontally on the upper 

 part of a long cleft between two large branches, to the base of which a pouch twice 

 or three times as long as the jar itself was attached perpendicularly, filling up the 

 face of the fork between the branches; the entrance hole being the mouth of the jar. 

 This nest was built of moss closely covered with pieces of lichen. An early breeder, 



