. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . rly black, thethroat grey ; the breast is dirty-white, and all the under partsare intermixed with grey. The entire length of the Crested Titmouse is four inchesand three-quarters. The wing measures, from the carpus tothe tip, two inches and a half; and the tail extends aboutan inch beyond the folded wings ; the tarsus measures three-quarters of an inch; and the beak about three and a halflines, from the forehead to the tip. From the forehead tothe end of the longest feather of the crest is about an inchand quarter, and the fourth quil
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . rly black, thethroat grey ; the breast is dirty-white, and all the under partsare intermixed with grey. The entire length of the Crested Titmouse is four inchesand three-quarters. The wing measures, from the carpus tothe tip, two inches and a half; and the tail extends aboutan inch beyond the folded wings ; the tarsus measures three-quarters of an inch; and the beak about three and a halflines, from the forehead to the tip. From the forehead tothe end of the longest feather of the crest is about an inchand quarter, and the fourth quill-feather is the longest inthe wing. In the autumn of 1889, during a rough gale of wind fromthe north-west, we observed in a fir-wood near ClaremontHouse in Surrey, a small bird apparently of this species, butbeing unable to obtain the specimen, we could not ascertainthe fact. It is possible that a Crested Titmouse might havebeen driven so much further south than its usual supposedlimit by a strong wind. The egg of this species is figured 80 in the
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