TIic Long-tailed Tit. 
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j)I;mtin,L;'. l)on"t let it he (as it often is) the result of such 
overcrowding tiiat the hirds are tired of pecking- eacli otlier, 
or of sucli had management that they are too hstless and mopy 
to (|uarrel. Let iis |)lace our hobby above reproach, and make 
it a means of ])reserving for future generations some of the 
beautiful living creatures which God has placed on the earth and 
man threatens to destroy. 

The Long-tailed Tit. 
By I^ieut. F. Dawson-Smith. 
I do not get much leisure for writing in these tremendous 
days, but I am always glad to do my bit towards supplying 
matter fcjr our Magazine, and so helping our over-burdened 
Editor. Therefore, when we retire to a Rest Camp, I find relief 
in turning my thoughts away from the tumult of War and its 
Long-t;iiled Tit. 
attendant horrors, back to the days before the War Lord flung 
down the gauntlet; the days of peace when my friends— the 
birds — and I 
Were more intimate acquaint," 
and then I take my pencil and write my remembrance and rem- 
iniscences for Bird Notes. And this time I will discourse on 
the subject of tlie Long'-tailed Tit, 
