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fifty specimens of stuffed birds, including many species, and 

 some of the rarest, as the Bee-eater, Golden Oriole, etc., all, 

 as we understood, obtained in the island, and among them 

 the Crested Tit, shot by himself; and he mentioned that he 

 had seen others of the same species which he did not obtain. 

 The size and manners of this Tit resemble closely those of 

 the Blue Tit ; it breeds in holes of trees and rocks, builds 

 with the same materials, and lays from seven to ten eggs, 

 which are white, spotted with red or brown. 



THE LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. Parus caudatus. The 

 nest of this species is certainly unrivalled in beauty by that 

 of any other ; built in very varied situations, in a holly, 

 thorn, or furze bush, or on the branches of the oak ; it is 

 somewhat oval or lengthened in its form, with a tiny aper- 

 ture near the top for the admission of the bird ; it is often 

 closely coated with silvery lichens, and thickly lined with 

 feathers or soft down. The eggs are very small, and of a 

 delicate pink-white before they are blown ; occasionally 

 spotless, but generally speckled with pale-red, and vary from 

 seven or eight to twice that number. (PL X. fig. 67, 68.) 



THE BEARDED TITMOUSE. Calamophilus liarmicus. 

 The reed-beds on the banks of the Thames, and the marshy 

 districts of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, Cambridge- 



