LONG-TAILED Ti l 
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The elaborately-constructed nest of tins spemes is well know n to eve , . - - -Li- 
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There arc some curious descriptions gi disnosc comfortably of their long 
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presence can only be accounted for by the injury the structure has suffered by removal from ^original 
site Branches or twigs are built into the outer covering; and when taken, however co y, V 
of the exterior is certain to be torn; and these openings have been considered natural I have 
nests removed from oak-branches, which might easily bo supposed to have been farms e y 
with a couple of entrances. 
These birds are seldom noticed singly during autumn or winter, the families of the preceding summer 
keeping company till the approach of the following spring. They also occasionally join in considerable flocks. 
Strange names arc often bestowed on the various members of the Titmouse family by the natives of country 
districts. The Long-tailed Tit is commonly known as the “Bottle-Tit,” and also as the “leather-poke, 
both these titles being apparently given on account of the manner in which this species constructs its nest. 
In the east of Norfolk the Blue Tit is invariably called the “ Pickcliecse,” while the Great Tit is known as 
the “ Saw-sharper,” the latter bird in Sussex being not unfrcquently styled the “Tinker” — these three names, 
without doubt, being derived from the call-notes of the birds. In many parts I have found the whole family 
of the Paridte known solely as Tom Tits; this, however, does not refer to the cast of Norfolk, where that name 
is given to the Common Wren. I was surprised to find that many of the country people in that district, who 
earn a considerable amount of money by egg-collecting and arc unusually well up in the knowledge of birds, 
were quite unacquainted with either the Coal or Marsh Tits. 
