

FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 165 



May 21 W.P.C. found a male asleep on the ground at 

 Canford by accident, but the bird is a very 

 light sleeper. Though W.P.C. fetched his camera 

 and set it up very carefully, the vibration caused 

 by operating the tilting table wakened the 

 bird, which fled. Later E.H.C. put up the 

 female. 



Nesting. 



June 30 At Haymoor Bottom, E.H.C. found a female 

 sitting on the ground, for all the world looking 

 like a piece of dead fir branch. She was nesting 

 in the same place as in the preceding year. He 

 put her up, and she was sitting two eggs of 

 precisely the same type as those of the pre- 

 ceding year. The eggs were placed with their 

 axes parallel and about two inches and a half 

 apart, from which E.H.C. judged that she was 

 not sitting hard. 



July 9 A second nest near the one above mentioned 

 was deserted, and we believe the Sparrowhawks 

 had the bird. The one above noted was still 

 safe. 



July 16 This one was missing. There were a few of her 

 feathers on the ground, and the stomachs of 

 the two young nestlings, which contained 

 Parastichtis lithoxylea, Paraslichtis polyodon, 

 and Leucania pattens. (W.P.C. and E.H.C.) 



FLAMMEIDAE. 



(56) Flammea flammea. Barn Owl. 



Apr. 8 At Knighton, near Canford. About 5 p.m. A 

 Barn Owl, which was very pale and greyish- 

 brown in colour, came hawking down the wet 

 valley. He went up and down the marsh and 

 worked along the bushes in a manner that 



