352 MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS 



feet of timber, and was sold for nearly 700, and 

 the bark for 200.* 



Hedge-Sparrows have been known to hatch 

 three times in one season. They begin to build 

 very early in the year. 



The hen Robin is certainly gifted with song, al- 

 though it is not so powerful as that of the male 

 bird. 



The Missel Thrush, while on its flight, may be 

 often heard to make a chuckling sort of noise very 

 similar to that of the Fieldfare. If these latter 

 birds are disturbed from a tree, each of them will 

 make this noise, and continue it at intervals, pro- 

 bably as a warning call to their companions. 



A pair of Song Thrushes made their nest in a 

 bush, and while the hen-bird was sitting, the cock 

 constructed another in an adjoining evergreen, 

 about six feet distance from the first. Soon after 

 the hen had hatched her eggs, she began laying 

 others in the fresh nest, and the care of rearing 

 the young birds entirely devolved on the male. 

 Both broods were brought up. This, I believe, is 

 a very unusual circumstance. 



Captain Fitzroy, in his voyage in the Beagle, 



