M EGGS AND EGG '-COLLECTING. 



brown. I have found several nests close together on a 

 small rocky islet in the Highlands. 



THE BEARDED TIT. 



IT is thought by some writers that the exceptionally hard 

 weather we experienced last winter (1894-5) has ex- 

 tinguished this little bird in its last resort, the fens of 

 Norfolk and Cambridgeshire; however, it is to be hoped 

 that this is not the case. Its nest is composed of dead 

 sedge and reed leaves, lined with grass and reed down, 

 and is situated near the ground in some large reed bed. 

 The eggs number from four to seven, light brownish- 

 white, sparingly marked with streaks and spots of dark 

 brown. 



THE ROSEATE TERN. 



So rare a breeder with us has this bird become, that a 

 celebrated authority recently included it in a work on 

 British Birds' Nests only after some hesitation ; but I am 

 pleased to say that two pairs bred last year in one of their 

 old haunts well known to me. The nest is simply a 

 hollow in the sand or shingle of a small rocky island, at no 

 great height from the sea. The eggs number two or three, 

 and exactly resemble in coloration and size those of the 

 Common and Arctic Terns. 



THE RINGED PLOVER. 



THIS pretty little bird makes no nest in the proper sense 

 of the word, although I have found a few pebbles and 



