. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . seeds of the fir top orcone. 1 The Cole Titmouse is a partial migrant like the other kinds of Titmice, andit helps to make up the flocks of these hirds which are seen passing the liglit-houses on the coasts of England and Scotland on migration in spring and autumn.—See Reports on the Migration of Birds, 1879-86. 94 THE COLE TITMOUSE. The nest of the Cole Titmouse is generally built in ahole in a tree, or wall, or in t
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . seeds of the fir top orcone. 1 The Cole Titmouse is a partial migrant like the other kinds of Titmice, andit helps to make up the flocks of these hirds which are seen passing the liglit-houses on the coasts of England and Scotland on migration in spring and autumn.—See Reports on the Migration of Birds, 1879-86. 94 THE COLE TITMOUSE. The nest of the Cole Titmouse is generally built in ahole in a tree, or wall, or in the ground,^ and is composedof moss, wool, hair, and feathers. The eggs, which are fromsix to eight in number, are white, spotted with light red,the spots being somewhat larger than those on the eggs ofthe Blue Titmouse. This species is easily distinguished from the MarshTitmouse, which it resembles, by the former having a whitepatch on the nape, and white spots on the wing coverts. 1 Mr. William Evans discovered a Cole Titmouses nest in a hole in thebank by the side of the small stream which flows past the gamekeepers houseat Paxton, on 12th June 1887. It had young. **!. I PASSEHES. ( 95 ) PARID^. THE MAESH TITMOUSE. MARSH-TIT, BLACK-CAP, SMALLER OX-EYE, WILLOW-BITER,JOE BENT. Parus palustris. Pease ! once I sung thee when anUcjnn was flowerets were fading and Nature forlorn,When trees their sere leaves on the streamlet were birds sat in silence on hazel and thorn : Now from the sunny south green spring returning. Blowing her life-givittg breath oer the Glen,Long buried beauties of Nature umirning. Calls me to strike my weak harp again. Walter Chisholm, The Pease Glen. The Pease Dean, a romantic and beautiful ravine in theparish of Cockburnspath, seems to be a favourite resort ofthe Marsh Titmouse, for it has been frequently observedthere by Mr, Hardy, who noticed a pair building their nestin a decayed oak stump near the Pease Bridge, on the 4thof Ma
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