THE BUSH-TIT. 



IHE BUSH-TIT is the smallest 

 of all our birds, save the hum- 

 ming-birds. It is a familiar and 

 abundant bird on all our Coast. 

 In winter, the woods everywhere 

 are full of the tiny things, working 

 for their living from morning till 

 night. High and low, in bush and tree, far from 

 our homes, or right in our gardens and orchards, 

 you may see and hear these little tits. They keep 

 up a constant twittering, whether in pairs or 

 flocks. In ,winter, they may be found in groups 

 or family parties of a dozen to twenty. These 

 are probably not real flocks, as you see in migra- 

 tory birds, but a single year's family all together. 



As from five to eight 

 little ones comprise a sin- 

 gle brood, and a pair of 

 bush-tits may nest three 

 times during the spring, 

 you can see that a single 

 season may result in quite 



REFERENCE TOPICS. 



Scale Insects on fruit 

 trees. How Injurious. 

 How destroyed. 



Red, black, and cottony 

 cushion scales. 



Value of birds and ants. 



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