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Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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hitby in 1872, corresponds with the NorthernP. c. cristatus Linn., and Mr. Witherby considers that another,taken in the Isle of Wight, is referable to the Central EuropeanP. c. 7nitratiis Brehm, in which the crest and cheeks are tingedwith buff. Outside its Scottish nesting area, some thirty miles in lengthand two or three miles wide, the Crested Tit will not be metwith in our islands, unless as a very exceptional wanderer fromthe Continent, for the bird is hardly migratory, but whether inScotland or on the Continent, where it is widespread, it is aneasy tit to recognise, for besides its erectile crest, the tip ofwhich is often recurved, its gorget and collar are distinctive.It is, like other tits, talkative, and one of its notes sounded tomy ears like the sharp call of the Robin. The birds keep upa constant zee^ zee^ see, similar to that of the Coal-Tit, but anoccasional churring sound was, when I heard it, more inter-rupted than the similar call of most tits. Its actions are typical
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PL 56. Long-tailed Titmouse and nest.

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