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throat and Hedge-Sparrow. It is large, and outside a typical 

 Wliitetliroat's, being made of dry grass, while inside it 

 resembles that of a Hedge-Sparrow, being lined with moss and 

 wool. It contained seven eggs, four being tvpical eggs of the 

 Hedge-Sparrow and three typical of the Whitethroat. Mr. 

 Dennys gives me the following details with regard to the nest. 

 which he found on May 19th last. 



" It was in a small coppice near Cambridge. The coppice 

 consisted of small trees — mostly oaks — with a thick under- 

 growth of brambles and nettles. It was evidently seldom 

 visited as there seemed to be no paths running through it, 

 and it was full of nests (of Blackbirds, Thrushes and Green- 

 finches mostly), which were placed in the most conspicuous 

 places where they could not fail to attract attention, 



" We found at least twenty nests with eggs or young birds. 



" The nest in question was in a low and straggling bramble 

 bush which was in the middle of a dense patch of nettles, 



" I do not think anyone had been to the nest before, as the 

 nettles showed no signs of having been trampled under foot by 

 :anybody. 



" The sitting bird slipped off the nest into the nettles on our 

 approach, so that we only got a glimpse of it, but we were both 

 of opinion that it was a Whitethroat. 



" The situation was decidedly a ' Whitethroat ' one. 



" On blowing the eggs I found that they were all absolutely 



E. C. Arnold. 



WOOD- WREN IN EAST ROSS-SHIEE. 



Mk. Howard Saunders mentions (Manual, 2nd Ed., p. 71) it as 

 occurring in tvest Koss-shire. I have met with two or three pairs 

 in the vicinity of Strathpeifer, on the eastern side of that 

 county, during the summers of 1906, and 1907. 



C. B. RiCKETT. 



LATE NESTING OF THE BEARDED TIT. 



When on Hickling Broad on September 3rd I Avas shown, 

 under the guidance of Miss E. L. Turner, the nest of a Bearded 

 Tit containing fully fledged young. When I first peeped into 

 the nest — which was placed in a clump of reeds, on a suiall 

 island, and about a foot from the water — all the nestlings were 

 crouching together, but almost directly afterwards they 

 scrambled out and hid themselves among the reeds. As we 

 left, the old birds returned and, doubtless, the young crept at 

 ■once back into the nest. 



The watcher, who served as our boatman, assured me that one 



