

dens, feeding upon Seth wafp:, bees, and ca- 
 terpillars, aid making a hoard: of hemp- teed, 
When it has an opportunity. 
oe He colleés feveral feeds in his bill, and carries 
them to his magazine, to eat them at his leifure; — 
perhaps his manner of breaking the feeds, which 
requires a fituation where he may place them 
one at a time between his feet, and pierce them 
‘ with the beak, may compel him to this inftance 
Of pert. 7 | 
~The Marfh Titmoufe is a folitary. bird, fre 
iqueniting willows, and alder trees, and confe- 
quently marfhy fituations. It is common in Eng- 
land, and many parts of Europe. 
Tue LONG TAIL TITMOUSE. 
The head is white, the tail longer than the body, a broad 
freak of black unites at the back part of the head, and palles 
- down the back to the tail. 
This f rncie basa fmall, and proportionably 
-alongifh body, which, together with the length of 
its tail, as its fight ts rapid, would induce one to 
imagine that it was an arrow darting through 
the air. 
It inhabits the woods, is Seis. and active, 
“never {carcely a moment in repofe, flitting from 
_ bufh to bufh, running along the branches in every 
direGtion, 
