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Bunbury's, Barton, Suffolk. The bird laid four eggs, and 

 then, without any known cause, forsook the nest. Very 

 soon afterwards a flycatcher came, and, having spread a 

 little covering over the redstart's eggs, laid one of her 

 own. Upon this one egg she began immediately to sit; 

 and while she was sitting, a Jenny-wren came and also 

 laid one egg in the same nest. She too thereupon began 

 to sit, and both birds sat together upon the same nest 

 for many days, and were seen and looked at together by 

 many persons daily. Both also hatched their young ; but 

 as the flycatcher came first, it was fledged first and flew 

 away. Almost immediately afterwards there came at 

 night a violent thunder-storm, which, as the nest of course 

 had not the wren^s usual covering, filled it with rain, and 

 the poor little one was drowned. In this state I saw it 

 next morning, August 17, lying dead and soaked upon 

 the redstart's eggs ; and the whole of this story, just as 

 I have related it, I heard two several times from Sir 

 Henry and Lady Bunbury." 



I HAVE been told by old people who " wonned " on the 

 banks of Loch Lomond, when adders were plentiful, that 

 they frequently noticed these reptiles in the warm sum- 

 mer nights creep from the tangled brushwood, take the 

 water, and swim in the direction of the islands. They 

 were easily seen on their voyage, as they always kept 

 their heads above water. There is less opportunity now 



