THE NATURAL HISTORY 
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direction, hanging by its feet, or aflembling at 
the cry of its ownfpecies $ it feeds on infedts and 
feeds, pinches buds of trees, and lays from ten 
to feventeen eggs, like others of the fame fa¬ 
mily. 
In the conftrucdion of its neft, the Long Tail 
Titmoufe differs from moft of the tribe; it is not 
made in the hole of a tree ; this would be inconve¬ 
nient to a bird of fo long a tail, the feathers of 
which are apt to fall off upon the flighted violence ; 
but it is firmly fixed upon the branches of a fhrub, 
about four feet from the ground. The neft is of an 
oval form, clofed above, with a fmall hole at the 
fide for'an entrance, and fometimes another oppo- 
£te, that the bird may leave it without hazarding 
an injury to its tail, by turning round in fo fmall 
a compafs. The outfide is compofed of blades of 
grafs, mofs, and lichen ; the inffde well furnifiled 
with feathers. 
They live together with their young in a fami¬ 
ly, during the winter. Their featners are very 
long and downy. In the fpring they have a little 
fong. 
This fpecies inhabits Europe, and even Ja¬ 
maica, and is very common with us, frequenting 
gardens and orchards. 
The 
