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if you like; it is not necessary at all. Let it be placed in full view

of any spectators. It will be an endless source of amusement at

about 9-10 a.m. every morning.


Finally, if possible keep your flight flooded with sunshine,

plenty of air, and no dark corners. Not too much boarding up or

you will lose the sunlight, unless you use glass shutters. Your birds

will never be too dry. They will easily suffer from too much damp.


Next month nesting sites and materials will be dealt with and

other matters that will arise.



CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC



FEARLESSNESS OF GOLDEN CRESTED WRENS.


I was standing guard over my Palm Dove’s seed dish to keep off the

sparrows while he fed, and at the same time was watching a couple of Gold

Crests squabbling in a spruce close by. They presently closed and alighted on

the ground about a yard from me abusing one another and displaying their

crests. Then they suddenly rose, flew on to my arm, doubled between it and

my body and for a few seconds one was actually in my hand and the other

clinging to my sleeve objurgating each other. Then they flew off to continue

the quarrel in another tree. ETHEL F. CHAWNER.



SIR,— It may interest members of the Society to hear that this morning

I watched a Wren “ working ” a birch tree in exactly the same way that a tree

creeper would, the only difference being that he carried his tail up and depended

solely on his feet and legs for support, and that he also worked down the trunk

with apparently equal ease, thus proving the usual statement in books, that the

Nuthatch is the only bird that can work down a tree trunk, to be untrue. I

watched the bird at about six yards distance for ten minutes. It was, I

believe, a cock, for while he was working the birch there was another Wren

pecking about on the roof of a shed near by, and when he left the birch he flew

to the roof and commenced to sing. HUGH WORMALD.



SUPPOSED TROUPIAL.


Dr. E. HOPKINSON suggests that this bird (seep. 122) is the bobolink.



CORRECTION.


P. 116 —last line but one of the article u the Vinaceous firefinch —West

Africa should be read for East Africa.



