The Bearded Tit.- 
-BIRDS.- 
-Tiie White-eyed Wardi.er. 
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crest of black and white feathers, is found principally 
in fir woods, both in this country and on the continent. 
The exotic species of the genns resemble the preceding 
in their habits, and need not be specially alluded to. 
THE lONG-TAILED TIT {iiccistura caudata)— Plate 
10, fig. 32 — is an abundant and generally distributed 
bird in Britain, where, like its allies, it haunts the 
woods, hedges, and gardens in search of insect food, 
to which it appears to restrict itself more decidedly 
than some of the preceding species. It is readily dis- 
tinguished from them by its long and graduated tail. 
This bird also differs from the other Tits in its mode 
of nidification ; its nest being a neat and comfortable 
structure, firmly placed amongst the branches of a thick 
bush, composed of moss and wool, thickly lined with 
soft feathers, and adorned externally with fragments 
of white lichens, which give it an elegant appearance. 
It is of an oval form, snugly domed over at the top, 
and with a single opening rather high up on one side 
for the entrance of the bird. 
THE BEAKDED TIT ( Calamophilus biarmicus), unlike 
the other Tits, resides amongst the reeds and sedges 
Avhich fringe our rivers, lakes, and ponds. Its food 
consists partly of insects and seeds, and partly of the 
small shelled mollusca which abound in the vicinity 
of water ; it is provided with a muscular gizzard by 
which the shells of these animals are speedily broken 
up. Its nest is built amongst the sedges near the 
ground. 
THE BLUE-EYED YELLOW WARBLER {Mniotilta 
(Estiva) is an example of a considerable group of the 
family of Warblers, which possesses a certain resem- 
blance in habits to the creepers. This bird is a common 
species in the United States of America, where it is a 
summer visitor, arriving in the middle states early in 
May, and departing in September. It retires for the 
winter to the West Indies, and the tropical parts of 
South America. The plumage is greenish-yellow 
above, golden-yellow beneath, with the breast streaked 
with dark red ; the bill and eyelids are blue. It is an 
active and familiar bird, which is seen in the gardens 
and shrubberies creeping about with sprightly move- 
ments upon the fruit-trees and bushes in search of its 
food, which consists principally of small green cater- 
pillars. Its nest is neatly made of tlax or tow, on a 
forked branch, and lined with hair and vegetable down. 
THE WORM-EATING WARBLER {Mniotilta vcrmi- 
vora). — Besides the preceding, numerous species of 
the group to which it belongs are found in America, 
and of these the Worm-eating Warliler is, like it, a 
summer visitor to the United States. It is an exceed- 
ingly active and sprightly bird, and feeds upon small 
caterpillars and spiders. 
THE WHITE-EYED VfK&SL'E,'S,{Zosteropspalpehrosiis), 
is a common East Indian species, nearly allied to the 
two preceding. It migrates from the plains to the 
mountains at the approach of the hot season, ascend- 
ing to a considerable elevation, and feeding partly 
Fig. no. 
Tlie Pied Wagtail (Motacilla YarrelliiJ. 
upon insects which it captures in the flowers, and 
partly on the small black berries of a species of JRkam- 
niis. The nest of this bird is described by Captain 
Hutton as being suspended by means of silk from two 
thin twigs of a tree, composed of the same material 
with moss, cotton, and other vegetable matters, and 
lined with hair, the silk being used to bind the other 
materials together; the whole forming a little oval cup. 
