190 ADDENDA 
tipped white. It builds, too, a beautiful 
regularly circular open cup-shaped nest (its 
first nest is In spring) which much resembles 
the chaffinch’s’ (sees: Part» I1,)\p: 1608) ama 
often three or four each year. It is composed 
of twigs, grass, roots, wool, moss and pretty 
lichens outside and is lined with horsehair, 
inside of which again are the soft parts of the 
ripe seeds (pappus) of the weeds it chiefly 
feeds on, for the eggs. After nesting (late 
summer) the old birds and their largely- 
increased families hatched during the year, 
fly about together feeding. Most migrate but 
some remain with us all the year, and some 
come to us from the Continent in the spring. 
The eggs are four or five, pale greenish-blue, 
streaked brown and purple at the larger end. 
An apple tree in an orchard is a favourite site 
for the nest, but they build also in oaks and 
other trees, or in bushes, and pick out the 
lichen from trunks of trees for their nests. 
The Wheatear (length 64 inches). I have 
sometimes seen solitary specimens of this bird 
near London, in spring, individuals on pass- 
age to other parts further out, and in autumn 
