GREAT TITMOUSE 



OXEYE BLACK-CAP GREAT TIT SIT-YE-DOWN GREAT 

 BLACK-HEADED TOMTIT TOM COLLIER. 



PLATE XXX. 

 Parus major, LINNAEUS. 



THE nest is usually made in a hole of a tree or of a wall, 

 or crevice of a rock ; sometimes the forsaken nest of a 

 a Crow or Magpie or even squirrel is converted into a 

 tenement. Not unfrequently it is placed in a pump either 

 used or unsued, the door-way being by the orifice for the 

 handle. Sir Charles Anderson, Bart., wrote me word of a 

 pair which thus built for many successive years, ten at the 

 least, although each year the nest was destroyed by the 

 working of the handle. I have known one on the side of a 

 roof under the tiles, another between the boughs of a tree, 

 only some three or four feet from the ground. In some cases 

 a hole is worked out for itself in the decayed wood of a tree. 

 The same site is often frequented from year to year, if its 

 tenants are not disturbed. The nest has been known to have 

 been built far up among the rafters of a house ; or in a 

 window-frame, the entrance being through the opening for 

 the weight ; and others under inverted flower-pots. It is 

 composed of a quantity of moss, feathers, leaves, hair, or other 



materials loosely compacted. Occasionally when a first nest 



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