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Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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PL 56. Long-tailed Titmouse and nest.
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I PL 57- Great Titmouse.Blue Titmouse. Z 145. LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. I45 of the family, and it frequently climbs on the trunks like aCreeper. The food is animal or vegetable, and it oftensearches the young shoots for the small pests which infestconifers in spring and summer. The nest is in a hole in a trunk or stump, and seldom farabove the ground, and the nesting materials are of the usualfelted type, but in Scotland often include the hair of reddeer, the fur of variable hare and the feathers of Grouse orPtarmigan. The eggs, four to eight as a rule, are laid in May ;they vary considerably, but are often more boldly and denselyblotched than those of many tits, and these blotches arefrequently very dark red (Plate 58). The upper parts are huffish brown, darker on the wings andtail; the under shade from dull white to light brown. Thehead is crowned by the crest in which the black feathers havewhite margins, giving it a speckled appearance in front butstreaked towards the nape, where the

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