TITMOUSE. PASSERES. PARUS. 231 
notes of the male bird are not unlike those of the greater tit- 
mouse. It breeds in the holes of old willows, and such trees 
as occur in its peculiar haunts, and frequently excavates the 
intended habitation of its brood to a considerable depth, al- 
ways making it a little wider at the bottom for the reception 
of the nest, which is composed of moss, mixed with the pap- Nest, &c. 
pus (or seed-down) of the willow, (and not of thistle-down, 
as stated by Monract), lined with a warm coating of the 
same material. The eggs, from six to eight in number, are 
white, with reddish-brown spots, most numerous towards the 
larger end. 
Like others of the genus, those birds keep together in fa- 
milies during the winter, only separating and pairing on the 
approach of spring. They are found throughout Europe, 
and are particularly abundant in Holland. The species ap- 
pears to be precisely the same in North America. 
PuiateE 51. Fig. 4. Natural size. 
Head, nape of the neck and throat ink-black. Upper parts General 
yellowish-grey. Wings and tail bluish-grey, edged paler. ean 
Cheeks yellowish-white. Breast and belly white, tinged 
with pale yellowish-brown. Legs bluish-grey. 
The female does not differ from the male bird. 
¥ Cole Titmouse.—Parus ater, Linn. 
PLATE 5). Fig. 3. 
Parus ater, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 341.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1009. sp. 7.—Lath. Ind. 
Ornith. v. 2. p. 564. 8.—Raii, Syn. p. 73. A. 2.— Will. p. 175. t. 43. 
Parus. Atricapillus, Briss. 3. p. 551. 5. 
La petite Charbonniére, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 400. 
Mesange petite Charbonniere, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 1. p. 288. 
Tannemeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 853.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
v. 1. p. 268. 
Cole ithe ses Br. Zool. 1. No. 164. t. 57. f. 3.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 327.— 
Will. (Ang.) p. 241. t. 43.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 540. 7.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 
3. t. 180.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Jd. Supp.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 10.— 
Don, Br. Birds, 4. t. 79.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 241.—Shaw’s 
Zool. v. 10. p. 56. t. 6. 
The Cole Titmouse is not so frequently met with as either 
