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On killing the fish they swallow it whole, and subsequently disgorge the 
bones. It is very interesting to watch them fishing. They are fond of 
certain trees and rails, where they sit motionless till an unhappy fish comes 
in sight, when, before you can speak, you see the fish in the bill so admirably 
adapted for taking, holding and killing it. They are very often unsuccessful 
in their attempts, and I have seen them go in six or seven times and only 
bring out one fish. In this rough sketch I have spoken of their not making 
any nest, and yet alluded to their nest. This apparent contradiction will be 
understood by all naturalists, and needs no apology—Henry GEORGE 
Tomuinson (The Woodlands, Burton-on-Trent). 
CrossBILL NESTING IN SUTHERLANDSHIRE.—I have just returned from 
Sutherland, bringing with me a prize which has seldom gladdened the 
eyes of British ornithologists, viz., a nest of the Crossbill, with its full 
complement of five eggs. The nest was taken on Monday last, and my 
informant spoke very feelingly of the difficulty he had in laying hands on 
it even after discovering it. It was placed, he says, not in the fork formed 
by the branch springing from the stem of the spruce fir tree, but almost at 
the end or extremity of the branch itself! As the branch was too slight 
to bear the weight of any person going along it towards the nest, the only 
plan to obtain it was to bend back the branch very carefully, and so bring 
the nest within reach. ‘The last Crossbill’s nest I got was in March, 1874, 
and it had but four eggs.—TuHomas Mackenzie (Aldie House, Tain). 
Woop Picron Nesting near A Hovuse.—This spring, for the fourth 
consecutive season, a pair of Wood Pigeons have nested in trees on my 
lawn, within a few yards of the house. During the last winter the flocks 
of this species in the beech-hanger have been unusually large-—THomas 
Bex (The Wakes, Selborne). 
Lanp AnD Fresawater Moriusca or Sussex.—In May, 1868, I com- 
municated to ‘The Zoologist’ a list of shells which I had noticed in West 
Sussex; and the perusal of your recent Catalogue of Sussex Mollusca 
prompts me to send you a note of the additions which I have made to my 
list since that date. They are the following :— * 
Paludina vivipara. Occurs at Wisboro’ Green. I found it plentifully 
last summer in a small stream which supplies a portion of the Wey and 
Arun Canal with water (called there the “feed ditch ") and have no doubt 
that it occurs throughout the canal. 
Helix arbustorum. Found this shell plentifully near Pulborough last 
August, when on an excursion of the Chichester and West Sussex Natural 
History Society. 
