LAST WEEK IN JUNE 139 
It was getting towards evening as I left, 
and I knew that the hen wigeon would at all 
events soon go to her eggs, though I was 
afraid she would forsake the eggs as the hay- 
makers would disturb her again very soon. 
(I came down here a few days after this and 
crept down to the nest. The hen, I was glad 
to find, was sitting all right, and I had a good 
look at her only ten yards off. She got off 
the eggs, however, and I _ snap-shotted 
her as she swam away. The wigeon has 
been described and figured in Part II, pp. 
182-3). 
I will describe here the nest of a chiffchaff 
which we found during a walk we took, in 
north of London, in this month (June). We 
sauntered down a shady country road (see 
Front.) and then into open country where there 
was more chance of finding birds building. 
The nest was on the ground in some tall 
grass, in which it is often built, and was diffi- 
cult to find. We happened on it, the bird 
flying off just before we got to it, thus attract- 
ing our attention. (On p. 162 of Part II 
