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LONG-TAILED TIT. 
LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. MUM RUFFIN. BOTTLE TIT. 
LONG-TAIL PIE. LONG TOM. BOTTLE TOM. POKE PUDDING. 
LONG POD. HUCK-MUCK. LONG-TAILED MAG. MUFFLIN. 
LONG-TAILED MUFFLIN. 
Y BENLOYN GNYFFONHIR, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 
PLATE XXXV. 
Parus caudatus, : ; Pennant. Montaau. 
Parus longicaudatus, . ‘ . Brisson. 
Mecistura vagans, . : F Leacu. 
Wir this species, nidification commences early in 
March. 
The nest of the Long-tailed Titmouse, the situation 
of which is repaired to frequently from year to year, 
is beautiful, and I may say wonderful. It is a hollow 
ball, generally nearly oval, with only one orifice; some 
have said two, to account for the location of the tail, 
which is said to project through one of them; and Mr. 
Hewitson describes one that he saw which had two open- 
ings, leaving the top of the nest like the handle of a basket, 
but such must be exceptional or accidental cases. This 
year, 1852, a similar instance has occurred in the garden 
of the Messieurs Dawson, of Poundsworth Mill, near 
Driffield. A French writer has explained that one orifice 
is intended for a front and the other for a back door, 
Mudie writes as follows:—“They, in the case of two aper- 
