blue tit
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noun
an Old World titmouse, Parus caeruleus, having a cobalt-blue crown.
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Origin of blue tit
First recorded in 1835–45
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The blue-tit makes its nest in a wall or a hole in a tree and lays about nine or ten pretty little spotted eggs.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children|W. HoughtonThe saw-like note of the great titmouse is said to foretell rain; that of the blue-tit, cold.
Poachers and Poaching|John WatsonBesides insects, blue-tit does not object to make a meal of dead mice or rats.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children|W. HoughtonMore fearless still is a blue-tit that has her dwelling in a crevice in the wall some fifty yards further on.
In the West Country|Francis A. Knight