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flights of Woodcocks from Scandinavia, and these 

 flights are almost invariably preceded by large 

 flocks of Golden Crests. The light-house keeper at 

 Spurn frequently finds large numbers of Golden 

 Crests dead under the lights, having killed them- 

 selves by flying against the plate-glass. The 

 Golden Crests invariably precede the Wood- 

 cocks." 



Mr. Selby has also noticed this arrival of the 

 Golden Crests, as has Mr. Cordeaux in Lincoln- 

 shire. Whether any of these new arrivals prosecute 

 their journey as far south and west as our county 

 I think very doubtful. The Golden Crest may, no 

 doubt, be more easily seen, and come more under 

 our notice, in the winter than in the summer, on 

 account of the absence of the thick foliage which 

 conceals it at that period, but I do not think it is to 

 be found in greater numbers at one time than at the 

 other. 



The nest of the Golden Crest is very curious, 

 being generally pendant. There is a very inte- 

 resting description of one of these nests in the 

 'Zoologist' for 1865, but it is too long to quote 

 here at length : the nest, however, in this case was 

 built in a cedar tree, not resting on a branch, but 

 some of the twigs were regularly built into the sides 

 of the nest, leaves and all. The nest, however, is 

 not always pendant, but is occasionally built upon 

 the upper surface of a branch ; and Hewitson adds 



