The {Merry Titmice 



WHILE the titmice have many habits in common, 

 are lively, active, and sociable, yet each kind has 

 strongly-marked points of character ; and we who love 

 birds and think about them should be ashamed if we 

 could not recognise any of the five common sorts which 

 might come to our gardens, or be seen roving through 

 the woods. 



It is very easy to attract four of the five to a garden. 

 Cocoanuts split in half, bones, fat, suet, or the kernels 

 of nuts are certain lures ; and no birds are more 

 amusing to watch, while they feed themselves, than 

 these merry little acrobats. 



The long-tailed tit is the smallest of the tribe 

 a greyish, rosy, fluffy, fairy-like bird he is, with a very 

 long tail, always restless, extremely quick in all his 



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