While they were debating how many of the eggs they should take, Frank saw a tit fly from a tuft of reeds a few yards off, and on going there they found another nest with four eggs in it.
Like all the tit family, they are very lively, jerking up and down the reed-stems in all sorts of positions, and as often as not with their heads down and their tails up.
The green-backed tit (Parus monticola) is a glorified edition of our English great tit.
Another tit which, I believe, does not ascend so high as Ootacamund, but which is not uncommon in the vicinity of Coonoor is the southern yellowtit (Machlolophus haplonotus).
The first of these is that feathered exquisite, the red-headed tit (Ægithaliscus erythrocephalus).
The green-backed tit is one of the most abundant birds in the Himalayas.
For an hour past I have been agreeably aware of the proximity of a great tit who, from a hedge below the orchard, has been singing his little see-saw song with unremitting industry.
The tit is as industrious a worker in the garden as the starling, and, unlike the starling, he has no taste for my cherries.
The trick succeeds; the doorkeeper of the hive comes out to enquire into the disturbance, and down swoops the great tit and away he flies with his capture.
Levin followed him, trying not to get left behind, and he found it harder and harder: the moment came when he felt he had no strength left, but at that very moment Tit stopped and whetted the scythes.
He felt as he swung his scythe that he was at the very end of his strength, and was making up his mind to ask Tit to stop.
The first row, as Levin noticed, Tit had mowed specially quickly, probably wishing to put his master to the test, and the row happened to be a long one.
But at that very moment Tit stopped of his own accord, and stooping down picked up some grass, rubbed his scythe, and began whetting it.
I tried so to arrange the balance that the heavier sparrow was cut off from the hole which contained the food, whilst for the tit it remained open.
To see a sparrow with his less-practised feet clinging to the edge of the tin, back downwards, just like a tit and helping himself to its contents is a good example of the energetic enterprise and the adaptability of his nature.
I noticed on another occasion that a tit in making this tapping noise was beating something (through the glass it looked like a beetle) which it held in its beak against a bough of the tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
