. An illustrated manual of British birds . while theold bird also preys on the grubs of the wood-boring beetles, themaggots from oak-galls, spiders, &c. In autumn it may perhapsdamage fruit to a small extent; while in winter a meat-bone hung upwill always prove an attraction. Its note is a harsh c/iee, c/iee, chee. Adult male : forehead, and a line which runs backward over eacheye and encircles the head, white; crown cobalt-blue ; a blue-black band runs through the eye to the nape, where it meets a darkblue band which, crossing the nape and encircling the white cheeks,joins the bluish-black th
. An illustrated manual of British birds . while theold bird also preys on the grubs of the wood-boring beetles, themaggots from oak-galls, spiders, &c. In autumn it may perhapsdamage fruit to a small extent; while in winter a meat-bone hung upwill always prove an attraction. Its note is a harsh c/iee, c/iee, chee. Adult male : forehead, and a line which runs backward over eacheye and encircles the head, white; crown cobalt-blue ; a blue-black band runs through the eye to the nape, where it meets a darkblue band which, crossing the nape and encircling the white cheeks,joins the bluish-black throat; mantle and rump yellowish-green ;tail and wings blue ; the coverts and tertials of the latter tippedwith white; breast and abdomen sulphur-yellow, with a bluish-blackstreak down the middle ; bill blackish; legs and feet , 4-2 in. ; wing to the tips of 3rd, 4th, and longest quills 2*4 female is somewhat duller. The young exhibit less blue andmore yellow in their comparatively dingy plumage. ;:.. THE CRESTED cristatus, EiniiKUS. The Crested Titmouse is a resident in a (e\\ of the oldest forestsof Scotland, which have not lost their natural growth of firs andoaks; and these, it may be sufficient to say, exist principally in thevalleys of the Spey and some neighbouring rivers. The bird is alsosaid to have been observed in summer in the Pass of Killiecrankie,and it has undoubtedly occurred in Perthshire in winter ; but itwanders little from its usual haunts, and one example in Argyleshireand another near Dumbarton, appear to be the only authenticatedinstances of its occurrence in the south-west of Scotland. In Englandfew of the cases on record can be substantiated, but a bird in theMuseum of Whitby, Yorkshire, was obtained in that vicinity inMarch 1872 ; one, examined by Mr. E. P. P. Butterfield, is said tohave been shot in August 1887 near Keighley, in the same county;and one appears to have been taken in Suffolk about 1847. N
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