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quarters elsewhere. The Great Titmouse is the 

 next commonest bird. It is a very typical hedge- 

 row species, prominent enough during winter, but 

 more retiring and less noisy in the breeding 

 season. A favourite nesting site is a hole in 

 some stump in the hedges. Then the Coal Tit- 

 mouse is another familiar bird along the hedge- 

 side, breeding in much the same situations. The 

 Marsh Tit is perhaps the rarest and most local of 

 this engaging quartette, and is frequently seen 

 solitary or attached to a party of the commoner 

 species. The Long-tailed Tit is another common 

 bird of the hedges, and troops of them are familiar 

 objects in these situations, especially in the winter 

 months. Their beautiful nest one of the hand- 

 somest, we always think, in the entire range of 

 bird architecture is frequently placed amongst 

 brambles and briars, or slung to several twigs of a 

 holly-bush. The white-headed continental race of 

 this Titmouse has never come under our notice in 

 Devonshire, amongst the many hundreds of the 

 typical form we have observed. Thrushes of 

 various species are amongst the most typical of 

 our hedgerow birds. In connection with these 

 species, we may mention that the Blackbird is 



