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flights of Woodcocks from Scandinavia, and these 
flights are almost invariably preceded by large 
flocks of Golden Crests. The light-house keeper at 
Spurn frequently finds large numbers of Golden 
Crests dead under the lights, having killed them- 
selves by flying against the plate-glass. The 
Golden Crests invariably precede the Wood- 
cocks.” 
Mr. Selby has also noticed this arrival of the 
Golden Crests, as has Mr. Cordeaux in Lincoln- 
shire. Whether any of these new arrivals prosecute 
their journey as far south and west as our county 
I think very doubtful. The Golden Crest may, no 
doubt, be more easily seen, and come more under 
our notice, in the winter then in the summer, on 
account of the absence of the thick foliage which 
conceals it at that period, but I do not think it is to 
be found in greater numbers at one time than at the 
other. 
The nest of the Golden Crest is very curious, 
being generally pendant. There is a very inte- 
resting description of one of these nests in the 
‘Zoologist’ for 1865, but it is too long to quote 
here at length: the nest, however, in this case was 
built in a cedar tree, not resting on a branch, but 
some of the twigs were regularly built into the sides 
of the nest, leaves and all. The nest, however, is 
not always pendant, but is occasionally built upon 
the upper surface of a branch; and Hewitson adds 
