s, which, before being blown, where of a dull pale salmon-tint,

This nest contained ten egg
, and more sparingly over the remainder of the surface,

led towards the larger end
These eggs were destitute of the be

compact mass.
somewhat thickly sprink
with light fleshy brown.
of the other British Tits.

Forehead, crown, sides of the nape,
entre of the nape white ; back and shoulders |
r tail-coverts ; wings slaty grey, the coverts tipped \
and the secondaries more broadly margined with pale or

autiful transparent pinky bue seen in the eggs

chin, and throat deep steely black ; cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of the
neck, and ¢ bluish grey, passing into pale buff on the lower part of
the back and uppe
wing ; primaries narrowly edged with light green,
ereyish white; tail brownish grey ; breast dull white; flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale brownish
fawn-colour ; irides blackish brown ; bill black; legs, toes, and claws bluish lead-colour.

In the young the general arrangement of the colours is the same; but the cheeks are yellow instead of

white, and the nuchal mark is yellowish white ;
imaries and secondaries are stained with yellow ; the under surface is

vith white, forming two bands across the

the tips of the greater wing-coverts and secondaries are

greyish white, and the edges of the pr
yellowish white, and the legs delicate purplish blue ; irides black
er mandible olivaceous black ; the remainder of the bill and the fleshy gape

; eyelashes a shade lighter ; culmen of the

upper and the middle of the low
rich gamboge-yellow ; inside of the mouth orange-yellow.

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Ihe figures are of the natural size, on a branch of the Beech, as it appears in the early part of April.