148 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



notes, as I was anxious to see what the focus of my camera 

 and the composition of the picture was like. 



1.35 One bird (subsequent behaviour made me believe this 

 to be the hen) came in whilst I was endeavouring to make a 

 ventilation hole in the tent which was insufferably hot. I 

 could not see what she brought. She stayed on the nest. 



1.47 The cock arrived and the hen then left ; the cock 

 entered the nest but only stayed a few minutes. 



1.52 Before I could change a plate or enter my notes, one 

 bird was back with a beakful of small greyish micros like some 

 Tortrix, say, about the appearance of Sericoris lacunana. 



1.53 The second bird, with more small grey moths. 



2.0 One bird came and went in very quickly the second 

 came and I snapped it, but it flew off and returned almost 

 immediately and entered the nest. I heard both birds give 

 their squeaky little call before they came to the nest. 



2.4 One bird arrived with a bill full of larvae, mostly 

 Geometrae, and the other bird left the nest ; the first entered, 

 stayed about one minute feeding the young. How the second 

 slipped in I do not know. I think however I can hear the 

 young squeak. 



2.20 One of the birds arrived and left quickly, and the 

 second before I could write my notes ; both brought small 

 insects (? order). 



2.24 One came in, but dodged across from a position that 

 did not permit of close inspection. This bird (? the female) 

 stayed on the nest till at 2.31 the other came, and the bird 

 that had been in hung on a pole outside the nest, vibrating 

 its wings very rapidly, for all the world like a large hawk moth 

 about to take flight. I was unable to get a picture of this 

 attitude as they pop in and out very quickly. 



2.38 One bird came in, but I find they undoubtedly have 

 a back wa}^ in, as they can pop in without coming to the front 

 at all. Just as I was going out to investigate this the second 

 bird arrived. I shifted the tent round a trifle and then went 

 inside the log hut to find the nest quite open at the back, so I 

 arranged matters to prevent the birds entering or leaving 



