UNPRECEDENTED WEATHER—NOTES ON BIRDS 51 
of sparrows in my garden that built in the 
dead plum tree just mentioned, and their 
daily busy search for pieces of hay, straw, 
paper, etc., as additions to their home. As 
soon as the evening shadows began to fall 
the pair would come to a may tree close by, 
and chirp and wag their tails to one another 
as if quite pleased with their day’s work. 
Both of them occupied the nest before and 
after the eggs were laid at night time. For 
at dusk, if I tapped on the tree trunk they 
would both fly out. I took a photograph one 
evening of the nest, with the cock-bird near 
it, just as the setting sun rounded the corner 
of the house close by. They laid again in 
the same nest in about six weeks after rear- 
ing the first brood. 
