THE ZOOLOGIST—JANUARY, 1875. 4289 
himself beyond all question the skilful and well-instructed ornith- 
ologist, he has kept steadily in view the principle of justice, and 
never assuming to himself the credit belonging to his brother. Nor 
must I overlook the modesty, the ever-present and unfeigned 
modesty, in which he speaks of his own part in the volume now 
so ably brought to a close:—“I can claim but a single merit for 
my share in the book—that of accuracy: for the rest, allowance 
must be generously made for shortcomings almost inseparable from 
work thrown unexpectedly upon a parish priest, only able to give 
it the hours which could be spared, and ill spared, from occupation 
of a wholly different kind.” 
EpwarD NEWMAN. 
Ornithological Notes from Norfolk. 
By_H. Srevenson, Esq., F.L.S. 
(Continued from §. 8. 4191.) 
JUNE. 
Rednecked Phalarope.—Myr. Dowell informs me that an example 
of this now scarce species was shot during this month on “ Snail’s 
Pit,” at Swaffham. 
Chaffinch Nesting in Confinement.—In answer to Mr. Nichol- 
son’s note on this point, in a recent number of the ‘ Zoologist’ 
(S.S. 4238), I can inform him that, in my large out-door aviary, two 
pairs of chaffinches have paired and nested during the last two 
summers. This year one nest was built, and three eggs laid by the 
17th of May; the other pair did not complete their nest till June. 
In only one were the young hatched, but these disappeared after a 
few days, and the nests were soon after pulled to pieces. Of other 
species, I have had nests and eggs of the greenfinch, lesser redpoll, 
goldfinch, bullfinch, yellowhammer, sky lark, and tree sparrow, but 
none hatched off except the redpolls and greenfinches, and only 
the latter brought up their young. The poor little redpolls laid 
three times in the season, and each time brought off three or four 
nestlings, which, as in the previous year, all disappeared in their 
callow state, as have done the young of other species, aud the eggs 
as well. 1 laid this slaughter of the “innocents” to a pet thrush, 
at first; but the same thing went on after he was caged by himself; 
and I am still at a loss to account for what, to me, is a great 
