coal tit

noun

a small European songbird, Parus ater, having a black head with a white patch on the nape: family Paridae (tits)

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How to use coal tit in a sentence

The coal tit-mouse and the marsh tit-mouse are seldom recognized as distinct species, by the novice.
Birds in Flight | W. P. Pycraft
Both kinds are perfectly amicable together, but a marsh will make way for a coal-tit.
In a Cheshire Garden | Geoffrey Egerton-Warburton
There were also pretty Sardinian warblers, with long tails and a white nuchal spot like a coal-tit.
Unexplored Spain | Abel Chapman

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