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and all got av^^ay safely on May 26th. Besides being a skilful 

 mason, the Nuthatch has other good qualities, he is a very 

 provident bird, never oblivious of the future ; nuts placed 

 upon a window-sill he declines to eat in our presence, but will 

 always carr}' them away to hide or bury. One effect of this 

 procedure is that a neighbour of mine occasionally finds self- 

 sown hazels growing up in rather odd places, the nuts having 

 been long since forgotten by the bird that concealed them. 

 Nuthatches also have a very frequent habit of inserting 

 seeds of the common laurel into the interstices of oak bark, 

 the habit is analagous to the wedging of acorns by a Calif ornian 

 Woodpecker M elanerpcs formicarius. 



Bearded Titmouse {Panitrus b. hiarmicits). 

 These pretty reedlings keep up their numbers, but it is 

 entirely owing to protection that they do so. Under date of 

 March ist, Mr. Farman writes of there being quite a good 

 many in certain places on the Waveney, and on the 31st 

 of that month nests were found in another locality already 

 containing six and three eggs. 



Waxwing [Bombycilla garruhts). 

 Double Migration of the Waxiving. — On February 3rcl, 

 Mr. B. Dye announced three Waxwings at Hemsby, while 

 in March there was a spring emigration of these birds, 

 which were now on their return to Europe after wintering 

 in England. At the beginning of November, a fresh immigra- 

 tion set in from the Continent — the strongest since 1913-14 — 

 the tired travellers arriving singly (Vincent) or in flocks up 

 to fourteen (Barclay). Their hunt for berries soon led them 

 into gardens where their tameness indicated hunger, and 

 one or two were presently picked up dead. At Gorleston. 

 Mr. Doughty tells me some resorted to a solitary thorn bush 

 which grows in the High Street, and remained there several 

 days unmolested, while five are noted by Mr. Dye in the 

 garden of the Workhouse at Yarmouth, and four in the 

 ahotment gardens. On the whole, people were content to 

 watch and not destroy them. Mr. Cat on Haigh reports 

 small flocks in several places in Lincolnshire. 



Wood-Warbler {Phylloscopus s. sibilatrix). 

 The status of the Wood- Warbler in Norfolk has not been 

 properly determined, either it is very rare or it is overlooked. 

 Mr. Tracey meets with it near Lynn, and it has been found at 

 Harling ; on May 2Tst he knew of a nest with five eggs at 

 Castle Rising, which hatched on June 4th. Towards the end 



