Passeres 47 



contain harmful insects ; it also eats peas, nuts, and 

 seeds to some extent, and is always attracted by meat- 

 bones, suet, cocoa-nuts and the like, hung up for it in 



Coal Tit 



winter. Occasionally it will even murder another bird, 

 but insects are its staple food. 



The Coal Titmouse (P. ater hritannicus), a smaller 

 species with no black stripe down the breast, has the 

 nape-patch as well as the cheeks white ; it does not 



