VOL VIII.] NOTES. 117 



SIZE OF SONG-THRUSH BROODS IN THE SCILLY 



ISLES. 



Having marked a number of Song-Thrushes (Turdus ph. 

 clarkei) in the Scilly Isles during the past summer, perhaps 

 details of the size of thirty-seven broods may be of interest. 

 2.7 per cent, contained 5 young. '\ 



.r,\ " " o " > Average brood =■ 3.46. 



40.5 „ „ 3 „ [ s 



8 1 2 1 



Only one nest contained five young, but two others 



contained five eggs apiece, of which, in the one case, only 



three hatched out, and in the other both nest and eggs 



disappeared. The average brood was 3.5, as three more 



broods of four were found, when fully fledged, dead in the 



nest, but in the above table I have only included those 



which were actually reared and flew. The nests were all 



far too small to accommodate a fully-fledged brood of five, 



one nestling of the only brood of five being accommodated 



in a hole in a neighbouring wall. H. W. Robinson. 



LATE NESTING OF THE NIGHTJAR. 



Mr. Alfred M. Inglis found a Nightjar {Caprimulgus e. 

 europcetis) sitting on a single egg on the common near 

 Westerham, Kent, on the morning of August 12th, 1914. 

 The egg was accidentally broken by a dog and was then 

 found to be in an advanced state of incubation. The 

 lateness of this particular nest is probably accounted for 

 by the fact that local fires have been frequent on the 

 neighbouring common, and may have destroyed earlier 

 attempts. I should be glad to know if this is the latest 

 record for the Nightjar. Clifford Borrer. 



[As it is now known that the Nightjar sometimes rears a 

 second brood in the season, it is not unnatural that eggs 

 and young should be met with occasionally hi August and 

 even in September. Amongst other recorded mstances 

 may be mentioned a young bird about three days old in 

 Yorkshire on August 19th {Zool. 1883, p. 380) : one egg 

 hatched August 19th in Yorkshire {t.c. p. 429) : a pair of 

 eggs in Norfolk, which were hatched on August 13th {ibid.) : 

 two eggs in Sussex on August 17th {Field, August 21st, 1880) : 

 two fresh eggs in Hampshire on August 12th {Zool. 1883, 

 p. 495) : two fresh eggs also from Hampshire on August 15th 

 {Zool. 1910, p. 339) : and young, twelve to fourteen days 

 old. on September 2nd, in Yorkshke {Nat. 1889, p. 333). 



Y. C. R. JOURDAIN.] 



