nOTES 



RAPID NEST-BUILDING BY A ROBIN. 



On April 19th, 1910, a gardener here (Basingstoke) hung up 

 his coat at 9.15 a.m. on a tree. At 1 p.m. he took it down 

 to put on, when a nest of a Robin {Erithacus rubecula), 

 ahnost comj)leted, fell from the folds of the coat. In three 

 and three-quarter hours, therefore, the site was selected and 

 the riest nearly finished. W. S. Medlicott. 



DARTFORD WARBLERS NESTING IN HEATHER. 



Statements have so frequently been repeated to the effect 

 that nests of the Dartford Warbler {Sylvia undata) have in 

 this country always been found amongst the lower portions 

 of thick furze-bushes, that some information with regard to 

 a departure from this habit will doubtless be of interest. 



During the past three years I have examined some numbers 

 of nests in a certain Surrey breeding-haunt of the species, 

 and in this locality the majority of birds build in long thick 

 heather {Calluna vulgaris), growing either amongst or near 

 extensive furze-coverts. 



I have also seen the nest placed in heather growing in oj^en 

 moorland country, furnishing no cover beyond that afforded 

 by a luxuriant shrub-like growth of that plant, and two or 

 three gorse-bushes growing at wide intervals, and at some 

 distance from the nesting-site ; but this latter situation seems 

 to be quite exceptional. Howard Bentham. 



[In the AvicuUural Magazine (November, 1909, p. 32) Mr. 

 Allen Silver mentions that an informant of his always found 

 the nests in heather, but he does not state in what district, 

 Mr. E. Hart {Field, 23, x., 1909, p. 751, and 7, v., 1910, p. 821) 

 states that he has always found the nests in heather in Hamp- 

 shire. I have myself found several nests in heather in Hamp- 

 shire, but many more in gorse. — H. F. W.] 



NUTHATCH IN ANGLESEY. 



Whilst on a visit to Anglesey I was cycling with my friend 

 Mr. Laisters F. Lort on May 14th, 1910, when, as we passed 

 through Llangoed (a village east of Beaumaris) in a place 

 where the road was overshadowed by trees, I caught sight of a 

 bird moving about the upper branches of a large oak in the 

 manner peculiar to the Nuthatch {Sitta ccesia). Ivaowing that 



