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of tlie nests figui-cd by Guettarcl has little bits of straw 
sticking out, of wbicli the greater part are worked into 
the texture. The Tits now arrange at the bottom of 
the nest a small couch formed of down, feathers, and 
other very soft materials. The colour of the nest is 
generally greyish or whitishf according to the material 
of which it is made. Aldrovandi and Thienemann have 
described nests with two openings, one before and one 
behind; but in all the nests I have received I have 
only noticed one entrance. 
We have seen that the edifice of the Remitz is 
suspended from above; the bird first makes the cord, 
which he twists round a fiexible branch. This cord, 
which is more or less long and thick, is divided into 
two parts, one of which goes into one side of the nest, 
the other into the other, and it is easy to observe how 
this cord will make at first two openings, one before 
and one behind, and one of which, as the nest advances, 
the bh'ds shut up, and complete the other into a pretty 
little door. 
The Remitz is not often seen in the north or centre 
of France, but frequently in the southern departments, 
and above all on the shores of the Rhone, Durance, 
Garden Herault, and Lez. The male and female work 
together, and take eighteen or twenty days to complete 
the nest. This activity is surprising when the perfection 
of the work is compared with the size and feebleness 
of the bh’ds. 
The Remitz lays four or five eggs, rarely six or seven. 
They are like those of the House Swallow, but smaller. 
They are rather elongated; the shell slender and dull. 
When just laid they are of an ivory white, and a pure 
white when blown. Great diameter fifteen millemetres, 
small diameter ten millemetres ; weight when empty 
