PLATE L. 
The Black Headed Tit. 
T^HESE are of the fmaller kind of Tits, but are not in fuch quantities as we find in many of 
our fmall birds ; tliey moftly frequent woods, retired lanes, and ragged hedges. Their neft is com- 
pofed of a brown and green mofs, intermixed with dried graft, and is lined with feathers. They 
lay from nine to fifteen eggs or more, their food is flies, fpiders, infe£ls, and wood ticks ; they are 
feldom feen fitting fl;ill, but are perpetually on their wings flying about the hedges and trees after 
their prey. When they firft leave their nefts, they refort to the inner parts of the wood, where, 
among the old and rotten trees they find wood ticks in great abundance. The young ones fo nearly 
refemble the old, that it is difiicult to diftinguifli the one from the other, without examining whether 
they have the black fpot under their throat, which does not come to its luftre till the latter end of 
the firll year. 
