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caudata, and it is exactly the same as young specimens of our 

 English form in my collection. 



The Long-tailed Titmouse is a common resident. There has 

 been much discussion, of late, whether the beautiful domed nest 

 of this species has one or two entrances. I have seen nothing 

 to lead to a suspicion that there is more than one, and I have 

 seen a great number of these nests, and have six or eight in my 

 collection; but I have an example, which I took myself, and 

 which might induce a careless observer to assume that this 

 nest had no orifice at all. The specimen alluded to has a val- 

 wlox flap or lid, which falls over, and completely closes the 

 entrance. The bird must have raised this lid every time it en- 

 tered and left the nest : indeed I discovered the entrance by the 

 bird doing so and passing out while I was searching for the hole. 



It has been conjectured that the second entrance is required 

 for the accommodation of the tail while the bird was sitting on 

 the eggs. Eut the fact is, that while so doing the tail is turned 

 over the back of the bird, and is occasionally protruded through 

 the ordinary entrance or aperture ; the great depth of the nest 

 however gives sufficient space without rendering the protrusion 

 of the tail at all necessary. Indeed, the Long-tailed Titmouse 

 erects its tail in the same manner as most of the Passer es do, and 

 of necessity must do, when sitting on their eggs. 



Family. AMPELIDiE, Bonaparte. 

 80. AMPELIS, Limmm. 

 95. 'WAX"^\^N■G. A. gaeexjltjs, Linnceus. 



Bomhy cilia garrula, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, 1., 91. 

 „ „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, I., 388. 



A casual visitant, appearing some years abundantly, in others 

 only rarely, and sometimes a year or two will pass without any 

 being seen. Entries in my journal show that it occurred in the 

 district in 1835, -50, -63, -66, -67, and -71, and that it was rather 

 abundant in 1 850, -66, and -67. I learn, by the MS. notes kindly 



