. Cassell's natural history . were either crushed or forced out, till the patience of the littlobuilders was utterly exhausted. THE COI,E-TIT.* The Cole-tit is a woodland bird. Its favourite localitj appears to be the fir ])lantations,on places that are rather elevated and dry, and while the trees are so young as to bebranched near the ground, or on the outskirts of the natiu-al forests, where the trees aremore apart than in the centre, and never so completely lose their natural branches, andwhere young ones have sjDace and air to spring up. This bird has the black on the head extending to the
. Cassell's natural history . were either crushed or forced out, till the patience of the littlobuilders was utterly exhausted. THE COI,E-TIT.* The Cole-tit is a woodland bird. Its favourite localitj appears to be the fir ])lantations,on places that are rather elevated and dry, and while the trees are so young as to bebranched near the ground, or on the outskirts of the natiu-al forests, where the trees aremore apart than in the centre, and never so completely lose their natural branches, andwhere young ones have sjDace and air to spring up. This bird has the black on the head extending to the lower part of the neck, but piedwith three bright and very conspicuous patches of white; an oblong one from the gape tothe lower part of the neck, on each side, pointed forwaid at the upper extremity andbackwards at the lower, and in some positions of the head extending to the white on theshotddcr, and one on the nape wholly within the black at the lower edge. The head ofthe Cole-tit is rather flattened on the crown. ■-¥S. TiiK r. This bird has a song—not indicd of many nolcs, or of mellifluous inflexions; if, islittle else than the same note repeated four or li\c fimcs, l)ii( it lias so miicli \aiictyofpitch and tune as to form a sort of cadence, which, it lias been said, would mako a t Poius Atcr. THE CEDAK ItlRD. 199 good variety an3-whcro, as it is slirill and clear; and which is particularly wclconac andcheering iu those mountain woods which the siunnier warblers but rarely visit. Thebird sings in the noon-tide heat, when most birds, and especially those on the openwastes, with which the haimts of this species arc usually interspersed, are silent. Whilethe Cole-tit is singmg- away in the plantation of half-grown pines, often heard, butseldom seen, the marsh species may be seen flitting about among the long and fragrantbloom which often oTows thick in the neighbourhood; but as the one is heard while theother is seen, that causes them to be confounded. THE CED
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