Identifier: cu31924001243561 (find matches)
Title: Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874 Visger, Jean Allan (Pinder) Owen, 1841-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, G. Routledge New York, E. P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en mistaken in the identity ofthe bird, as it had lost a leg, by what accident I know not; but theloss did not at all interfere with its activity or spirits. Theirsociability extends sometimes to birds of other kinds, as the Creeperand the Tits of several species have been seen hunting in companywith them. The habits of these birds being similar, they per-haps associate from a feeling of mutual protection, just as Sparrows,Buntings, and Finches make common cause, when they invadeour rick-yards. The Gold-crests are, however, naturally less warythan any of the Tits. These last wiU at once decamp if disturbed,but Gold-crests will continue their hunting without taking any noticeof a spectator. In autumn large flocks sometimes arrive onour east coast extending across England and on into Ireland. InApril a return migration takes place. The nest of the Gold-crest isa beautiful structure. Its external form is nearly that of a globe,,with a contracted opening at the top. It is composed of moss
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.,0.^ Fire Crested Wren ^ Long Tailed Tit ^Gold Crest j Great Tit ^ ip.ai. THE LONG-TAILED TIT 35 and lichens, interwoven with wool and lined thickly with feathers.It is usually placed among the boughs of a silver-fir or spruce-fir,in such a manner as to be partially suspended from one branchand supported by another. The bird seems neither to court norto shun the vicinity of human beings ; as I have found nests inthe most lonely woods, and I have seen one in the branches of aspruce-fir, so close to my house that I could look into the nestfrom my bedroom windows, and watch the old birds feeding theiryoung. The eggs vary in number from five to eight, they arealmost globular, and smaller than those of any other British bird.This is scarcely surprising, seeing that the weight of a recentlykilled adult male which I have before me is eighty-seven grains ;so that five and a half full-grown birds weigh but an ounce. THE FIRE-CRESTED WREN REGULUS IGNICAPILLUS Upper parts olive-green ; a dark s

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