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horizontally or obliquely from top to bottom. It is in 
some respects like tbat of tbe Long-tailed Tit, but it 
is more delicately and skilfully built, and it is particu- 
larly distinguished from it by the manner in which it 
is suspended. This nest does not rest upon the branches 
or trunk of the tree; it is quite free, and always sus- 
pended from the upper part of the flexible branches of 
aspens, willows, tamarisks, and other trees or shrubs 
which grow on the borders of rivers or marshes. This 
is why some ornithologists call the Lemitz, Penduline, 
( Parus nidum suspendens.) 
When the nest of the Pemitz is turned on one side, 
with the opening above, it resembles somewhat a woollen 
sock both in shape and material; so much so, that the 
peasants in the neighbourhood of Nimes have given the 
bird the name of Dehassayre, (stocking-weaver.) This 
little architectural chef -d’ -oeuvre is more or less length- 
ened according to the age and other circumstances of 
the bird. The most ordinary form is that of a bag- 
pipe, of which the pipe has been shortened. 
M. Requien, of Avignon, sent me from the neighbour- 
hood of his native town a nest of this form, which is 
very characteristic. It was taken on the borders of the 
Phone, suspended to the bough of a young aspen, by 
a rather long and narrow cord. It had the following 
dimensions: — Height seventeen cents.; transverse diameter 
eleven cents; length of lobby three cents, and a half; 
diameter of opening three cents.; thickness of edges fonr 
millemetres. It weighed fifty-five grammes. Sometimes 
the lobby does not exist, and the nest then takes the 
figure of a wallet, an egg, or a pear, nearly like that 
of the Long-tailed Tit. 
The nest is attached and suspended with fibres of 
hemp, flax, nettles, stalks of grasses, and even with little 
