Effect of Air-raids and Air-craft 
some occasions the birds’ curiosity seems to 
have been aroused rather than their fear, 
and a flock of BLACK-HEADED GULLS, in 
Perthshire, were seen to pursue three hydro- 
planes (Scottish Naturalist, 1916, p. 66). On 
the approach of an aeroplane after dark to a 
fir wood, it was noticed that the Woop- 
PIGEONS, which had come in to roost, rose in 
a mass and fluttered noisily round and round, 
PHEASANTS crowed and flew to and fro, and 
all the small birds twittered and called. A 
WHITETHROAT and a WILLOW WARBLER be- 
gan snatches of song and broke off abruptly ; 
only a LONG-EARED OWL sat tight and showed 
no fear (Bird Notes and News, vol. vi. p. 103). 
A bird-lover who lives in Kensington Palace 
Green tells me that the birds were very 
much alarmed by the earlierraids. SPARROWS 
and OWwLs became restless about an hour or 
thirty minutes beforehand. A GREEN PAR- 
ROT shrieked repeatedly. On one occasion a 
SPARROW fainted, but, after having been kept 
in the house all night, flew away next morn- 
ing. A tame PIGEON, which was always 
very nervous, sat in its owner’s hand in a 
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