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from the ground, so that it is most conspicuous. What 

 induced the Goldcrest to build in such an unusual position 

 I cannot imagine, for there are plenty of larch, spruce, yew 

 and other suitable trees in the same wood. 



H. E. Forrest. 



A PAIR of Goldcrests [Regulus cristatus) have this year built 

 their nest amongst the matted stems of a rambler-rose trained 

 against an uj^right post in a flower-bed in the garden at 

 Huntbourne, High Halden, Kent. The nest is about four 

 feet and a half from the ground and well hidden by the foliage 

 of the bush. On June 12th the young were a few days old. 

 The birds first of all built in a juniper in the same garden, bub 

 owing to too frequent inspection abandoned this site before 

 laying, and although there are several similar, and one would 

 think more suitable, nesting-sites, they have preferred the 

 present anomalous one. N. F. Ticehurst. 



LATE STAY OF BRAMBLING. 



With reference to the notes on this subject published in the 

 June issue (page 20), it may be worth while to record that 

 on April 17th, 1910, I observed a party of eight Bramblings 

 at Titsey, in Surrey. Beech-nuts were unusually plentiful 

 in that locality last winter, and were still to be found in con- 

 siderable numbers at the time I noticed the Bramblings, 

 and this possibly may have had some relation to the delayed 

 departure of the birds. Howard Bentham. 



With reference to Mr. Medlicott's note {supra, p. 20), I may 

 say that on April 9th, 1909, I saw a few Bramblings in a wood 

 near Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Their numbers were increased during 

 the next few days, and on April 15th there were twenty or 

 thirty in a flock. The next day they had disappeared. I 

 noticed that they had not yet acquired the blue bill of the 

 summer-plumage. J. K. Stanford. 



CROSSBILLS NESTING IN ENGLAND. 



In Sussex. 



I HAVE noticed that Crossbills are to be found in flocks at 

 all seasons, even during the nesting-time — a fact equally 

 noticeable amongst Twites and Red Linnets, which seem to 

 resort together at the feeding hours, even though they may 

 separate at other periods of the day to attend to their domestic 

 duties. 



The Crossbills near my house at Horsham, Sussex, seem to 

 have regular flighting times along particular lines of trees. 



