164 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



8.46 and 8.47 and 8.57 the cock fed the young. 9 Hen ; 

 9.4 hen ; 9.10 cock, 9.14 the hen fed the young. 



20th June. W.P.C. paid further attention to these birds. 

 He notes as follows : 



7.30 Settled in with all the gear ready. 7.32 Bird fed young, 

 which have made marvellous progress in a week ; they very 

 nearly resemble the adult birds, and keep looking out of the 

 hole, and are much more noisy than they were a week ago. 



7.40 One of the birds fed the young by regurgitation. 7.46 

 Another of the parents came. 7.50 One of the birds brought 

 a number of Dipterous flies and hymenoptera of no great 

 size. 7.57 Cock ; 7.58 hen and 7.59 cock fed the young. 



8.3 Hen brought larvae for the young which appeared to 

 be Hybernias. 8.8 Hen and 8.14 cock fed. 8.20 One of the 

 birds fed the young on larvae. 8.25 Cock fed young, but 

 seemed alarmed at something, hen followed on quickly, but 

 left in a hurry. 8.34 The hen again. 8.35 The male with 

 two small moths about the size of a Melanippe jluctuata 

 probably Melanippe montanata or possibly Coremia ferrugala 

 and various other oddments. (I think since that these moths 

 were almost certainly Coremia ferrugala, which was at rest 

 on the tree trunks in the neighbourhood in fair numbers, that 

 is to say, I found several at rest at varying heights on birch 

 trees mostly from 4 to 7 feet from the ground). 



8.42 The cock fed. 8.47 The cock came to the nest, but 

 dropped straight down to the ground suddenly and made off 

 in a zig-zag direction, which I put down to the advent of a 

 hawk, as all the birds were silent. (E.H.C. saw a female 

 A. nisus go over just about this time, evidently on the war 

 path). Both birds gave their alarm notes. 



8.49 The hen fed. 8.50 the cock. 8.54 The young were 

 quiet for a few seconds. 8.54-30 The female fed. 8.56 Male 

 brought a grey noctua rather smaller than an average sized 

 Acronycla psi and about the same colour ; male " churcked, " 

 but not in alarm, he apparently was calling the female. 



9.0 Female fed, while male called a little way off. I went 

 out to get more plates. 9.30 Male fed young. He afterwards 



