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PENDULTNE TIT. 
six centigrammes. Bechstein and Temminck made a 
mistake when they described small reddish spots as 
distributed over the shell, like the eggs of the other 
Tits. The female lays twice in the year, — in April or 
May, and again in July or August.” 
The following interesting description of the nidification 
of the Penduline Titmouse given by M. Taezanowski, 
of Warsaw, is also taken from the “Bevue et Magasin 
de Zoologie” No. 6, 1859: — 
‘^Having had an opportunity of seeing a great number 
of the nests of the Bemitz, and of making a collection 
of those variously constructed, I have been able to as- 
certain the way in which they are built, and to correct 
some mistakes which have hitherto existed, from the 
imperfect observations which have been made upon 
them. 
The materials which form the foundation of these 
nests are the fibres of hemp, nettles, and long and slender 
filaments of the bark of different species of willows, 
which the Bemitz separates in great quantity from those 
plants when they are dry. It attaches these materials 
upon a single flexible branch above its fork. When it 
has sufficient material it begins the real substance of 
its nest, which is composed of the down of the catkins 
of the willow and poplar, and is placed helow the fork 
of the branch above mentioned. It first forms an out- 
line of the nest, about three centimetres wide, into 
which it introduces at least one twig of the tree into 
each side of the nest. When this outline is sufficiently 
long, it takes the ends of the filaments and joins them 
together, so as to form the bottom of the nest. It now 
lines the two sides of the nest with down, proceeding 
from the bottom to the top, until it has succeeded in 
forming a nest which has two openings. Then it lines 
