an island near Dalmatia, and one of the best peopled and most considerable of those which are under the jurisdiction of Sibenico. It contains a great number of fishermen, and a considerable number of persons who give themselves up to agriculture. It contains many Roman antiquities, which evidently show that it was a Roman station. It seems to be among the number of those islands which Pliny calls Celadoffe, which is supposed to be an inversion of οἰκοδόμοις, which

Vol. XIII. Part II. differing from all others of this genus. The top of the head, from the bill to the hind part, is white, mixed with a few dark grey feathers; this bed of white is entirely surrounded with a broad stroke of black; which rising on each side of the upper mandible, passes over each eye, unites at the hind part of the head, and continues along the middle of the back to the rump. The feathers on each side of this black stroke are of a purplish red, as are those immediately incumbent on the tail. The tail is the longest, in proportion to the bulk, of any British bird, being in length three inches, the form not unlike that of a magpie, consisting of 12 feathers of unequal lengths, the middlemost the longest, those on each side growing gradually shorter. These birds are often seen passing through our gardens, going from one tree to another, as if in their road to some other places, never making any halt. They make their nests with great elegance, of an oval shape, and about eight inches deep, having near the upper end a hole for admission. The external materials are mosses and lichens curiously interwoven with wool. On the inside it is very warmly lined with a thick bed of feathers. The female lays from 10 to 17 eggs. The young follow their parents the whole winter; and, from the slumberousness of their bodies, and great length of tail, appear, while flying, like as many darts cutting the air.

6. The biamicus, or bearded titmouse, has a short, strong, and very convex bill, of box colour; the head of a fine grey; the chin and throat white; the middle of the breast flesh coloured; the sides and thighs of a pale orange; the hind part of the neck and back of orange bay; the tail is two inches and three quarters long; the legs of a deep shining black. The female wants the flesh-colour on the breast, and a triangular tuft of black feathers on each side the bill which adorn the male. They are found in marshy places.

7. The remiz, or small species of titmouse. It is called parus pendulimus, and is often found in Lithuania. Mr Coxe, in his Travels through Poland, gives the following account of this little animal. "The wondrous structure of its pendent nest induced me to give an engraving of both that and the birds themselves. They are of the smallest species of titmice. The head is of a very pale bluish ash colour; the forepart of the neck and the breast tinged with red; the belly white; wings black; back and rump of a yellowish rust colour; quill feathers cinereous, with the exterior sides white; the tail rust-coloured. The male is singularly distinguished from the female by a pair of black-pointed whiskers. Its nest is in the shape of a long purse, which it forms with amazing art, by interweaving down, gossamer, and minute fibres, in a close and compact manner, and then lining the inside with down alone, so as to make a snug and warm lodge for its young brood. The entrance is at the side, small, and round, with its edge more strongly marked than the rest of this curious fabric: the bird, attentive to the preservation of its eggs or little ones from noxious animals, suspends it at the lesser end to the extremity of the slender twigs of a willow or some other tree over a river. Contrary to the custom of titmice, it lays only four or five eggs: possibly Providence hath ordained this scantiness of eggs to the remiz, because by the singular instinct imparted to it, it is enabled to secure its young much more effectually from destruction, than the other species, which are very prolific."