Crass I. LONG TAILED TITMOUSE. 395 
The tail is the longeft in proportion to the bulk 
of any Briti/b bird, being in length three inches; 
the form of it is like that of a magpie, confifting 
of twelve feathers of unequal lengths, the middle- 
moft the longeft, thofe on each fide growing 
gradually fhorter ; the exterior fides, and the top 
of the interior fides of the three outmoft feathers 
are white; the reft of the tail black. The cheeks 
and throat are white: the breaft and whole under 
fide white, with acaftof red. The legs, feet, and 
claws are black. | 
It forms its neft with great elegance, of an oval 
fhape, and about eight inches deep; near the up- 
per end is a hole for admiifion: the external mate-_ 
tials are moffes and lichens, curioufly interwoven 
with wool; within it is lined very warmly witha 
thick bed of feathers: it lays from ten to feven- 
teen egos. The young follow the parents the 
~whole winter; and from the flimnefs of their bodies, 
and gfeat length of tail, appear, while flying, like 
fo many darts cutting the air. ‘They are often feen 
paffing through our gardens, going progreflively 
from tree to tree, as if in-their road to fome other 
place, never making any halt. 
Ddz Lelt 
