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glass, and also to the practised ear by their peculiar " grunting " 

 note. A few days ago I was on the top of the central tower, 

 and it was very evident that a pair of Stock-Doves had eggs 

 or young some iew feet below me. The pair were constantly 

 alighting on a particular gargoyle, and were evidently very 

 anxious to creep into some crevice among the masonry, but 

 could not make up their minds to do this as long as I was 

 standing a few feet above them. I got a good view of both 

 birds at very close quarters. I have found many nests of 

 Stock-Doves in holes in trees, rabbit burrows, or crevices in 

 sea-cliffs, but have never come across them nesting on 

 buildings before. I shall be much interested to hear whether 

 that is a common practice with the species. 



F. L. Blathwayt. 



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Nesting of the Marsh- Warbler in Kent. — Mr. Colling- 

 wood Ingram gives (Field, April 4th) a long and interesting 

 account of the nesting of the Marsh- Warbler {Acrocephalus 

 palustris) in Kent in 1905 (c/. supra, p. 84). 



The nest he describes as built in the centre of a thicket, 

 between two and three feet from the ground. It was cup- 

 shaped, and slung between two stems of a sapling ash, a third 

 support being furnished by a dry nettle-stalk. Grass bents 

 and hay loosely, but securely, twisted, bound this cradle to its 

 supports, and horse-hair and ''cocoa-nut fibres" formed its 

 lining. The cocoa-nut fibres were brought, it seems, from a 

 neighbouring hop-garden. 



Mr. Ingram left four eggs in the nest, which duly hatched, 

 the young being quite naked and very dark-skinned. 



Richard's Pipit in Norfolk:. — Mr. Norman F. Richardson 

 writes that he shot in "Norfolk" on November 21st, 1907, a 

 female Anthus richardi (Field, April 4th, 1908, p. 583). Two 

 others were recorded from the Norfolk coast in the previous 

 month (vide supra, p. 264). 



White Wagtail Nesting in Sussex. — In the course of 

 an article in the " Field " (April 11th) on this species in Sussex, 

 Mr. J. Walpole Bond describes it as no rarity on the spring 

 and autumn migration. He also gives details of a nest which 

 he found on May 31st, 1904, in the rough wall of a hut on the 

 line \\hich runs from Brighton to the Devil's Dyke. Both 

 birds M'ere seen at close quarters and clearly identified as 

 Motacilla alba. 



Pied Flycatcher Nesting in Kirkcudbrightshire. — 

 Mr. Robert Service records the nesting of two pairs of 



