4076 The Zoologist— July, 1874. 



interesting to those of your readers who have given attention to the songs 

 of our warblei's ; but I am quite sure that any one at all acquainted with 

 the songs of birds would have been deceived as to the author of this music, 

 unless he saw the bird. — Edivanl Hearle Eodd ; Penzance, May 27, 1874. 



Curious Nestiug-place of the Greater Tit. — This morning when the 

 gardeners here were removing a large vase, preparatory to placing a flower- 

 pot in it, they found a nest of the greater tit containing five or six young 

 birds about half-fledged. At the bottom of the vase is a narrow neck 

 leading to an open square base in which the nest was placed. The only 

 possible entrance to this place was down the narrow neck. I only regret 

 that I was too late to prevent the men disturbing the nest, as I should 

 have been curious to see whether the young birds would have eventually 

 found their own way out, or whether the old ones would have continued to 

 feed them, even when fully fledged. — T. E. Tatton ; Wythiirshame Hall, 

 Clmshlre, June 13, 1874. 



Curiously situated Nests of Tits.— A correspondent in the June number 

 of the ' Zoologist" records an instance of a pair of blue tits [rams caruleus) 

 building in a hole in a gravel-pit. In June, 1805, I found a nest of the 

 greater tit (P. major) in a similar spot, with seven eggs. Two years prior 

 a pair of blue tits built in a letter box attached to a door in this parish, 

 when four eggs were laid before they deserted. This was noticed in the 

 ' Zoologist,' I believe, at the time, but I cannot refer to the number. In 

 May, 1866, my brother found a nuthatch's nest in a sand martin's hole, the 

 entrance being obstructed by mud in the usual way, from which he took six 

 eggs. — George W. P. Moor. 



Tree Sparrow building iu Cambridgeshire. — In the ' Zoologist' for May, 

 Mr. Doubleday mentions Aldwinkle, in Northamptonshire, as a locality in 

 which the tree sparrow builds. It may not be generally known that these 

 birds build iu large numbers along the sides of the Cam, where I have seen 

 many eggs taken from the holes in the old pollard willow trees : the eggs 

 are considerably smaller than those of the common sparrow. In Meyer's 

 ' British Birds,' I see, both Aldwinkle and Cambridge are given as 

 localities. — Id. 



Nesting of the Tree Sparrow. — Mr. Doubleday, remarking on my note 

 (Zool. S. S. 3947), that " nests of the tree sparrow were, I believe, observed 

 in some tall trees by the roadside," says, " These nests were probably those 

 of the house sparrow, which frequently builds its nest in the branches of 

 trees; but this is never the case with the tree sparrow, whicli invariably 

 builds in holes in old trees, as pointed out by the late Colonel Montagu." 

 That the house sparrow frequently builds in trees T am well aware, having 

 found their nests so placed more than half a century ago, and iu my Tun- 

 bridge notes (Zool. 5683 and 575^) I described, at some length, their manner 

 of building, &c. One reason for believing, or thinking, that the nests seen 



