AUTUMN, 1912 291 



At the end of the season, after the departure of the 

 martins, he got up to remove the board, and the double 

 nest looked so curious he thought he would take this 

 down too and examine it. On breaking the closed 

 nest open he was astonished to find the hen sparrow 

 in it, a feathered skeleton still sitting on four eggs ! 



