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bottletit (plural bottletits)

1. Synonym of long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus. [19th c.]
   • 1831, James Rennie, Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds‎, page 528:

     The bottle tit (Parus caudatus,) flits with great quickness among the branches of trees, and finds on the very smooth bark its particular food,

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 2, page 72:

     The Bottletit—the nest and the bough are always put in glass cases; it’s a long hanging nest, like a bottle, with a hole about as big as a sixpence, and there’s mostly as many as eighteen eggs; they’ve been known to lay thirty-three.

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