524 Short Communications : — 



Barnes of Swindon, in Wiltshire, bears testimony to the fact 

 of a swallow building in a bed-room regularly occupied, and 

 upon the heel of a shoe hung up therein. The young ones 

 were there hatched, and, according to a statement in the 

 Dorset Chronicle, August 8. 1833, had not at that date left 

 the nest. — W. B. Clarke. Parkstonc. 



On Martins and Swallows, the instances given are in Vol. V. 

 p. 285. 735., Vol. VI. p. 32. note *, 454. 524. That, in 

 p. 455., of swallows building, in two successive years, their 

 nest on the crank of a bell-wire, in the passage of an in- 

 habited house, and rearing their young there, is very remark- 

 able.— J. D. 



A Snow Bunting's Nest not in the Skull of an Esquimaux. 

 (p. 154.) — Since I sent the note on this subject, I have found 

 the original memorandum, of which I had only an imperfect 

 recollection. As I quoted from memory, I fell into a mistake ; 

 and I beg you to allow me to correct it, though it is at the 

 expense of the coincidence which I endeavoured to establish, 

 too accurately, between the skulls of Tom Otter and the 

 Esquimaux. " Captain Lyon, in his attempts to reach Re- 

 pulse Bay in 1824, found some natives of Southampton Island 

 who possessed arrow-heads and knives made of dark-coloured 

 flint : these were found also over the grave of a child, on the 

 neck of which a bird [the snow bunting] had built its nest. 

 See Lyon's Voyage, p. 68. " If these are not the words of 

 Captain LyOn, they convey his meaning. — W. B. Clarke. 

 Parkstone, July, 1833. 



A Pair of Redstarts built their Nest in an inverted Flower- 

 pot (p. 34.), at Wherstead Lodge, near Ipswich, about 4 or 

 5 years ago. The pot appropriated by this pair was one of 

 the kind used in the forcing of sea-kale (Crambe mari- 

 tima L.) ; consequently their nest was, from the larger orifice 

 in the bottom of this kind of pot, more conveniently acces- 

 sible than in the instance described by Mr. Bree, in page 34. 

 — Henry Turner. Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edmunds, 

 Feb. 26. 1833. 



The Robin's Confidence in Man. (p. 68.) — As an instance, 

 additional to that described in p. 68 , I may mention, that, 

 early in 1832, a pair built their nest, and reared their young, 

 on a pot of strawberry plants, placed to be forced in a hot- 

 house belonging to Mr. Trevethan of this town. The pot 

 stood at the back of the hot-house, and near the glass. The 

 nest was so tightly fitted in and worked to the plants, that, 

 although the pot was frequently, in all the different conditions 

 of the nest, taken down to satisfy the curiosity of visiters, and 

 then replaced, still its contents were not injured. 



