254 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
House Sparrow, lately found hanging by one leg from the branch of a tree 
in the garden, the claws having become entangled in a confused mass of 
thread which it was in the act of conveying to the nest. A white Sparrow 
has lately been observed here, and some are met with in most seasons, but 
these are invariably birds of the year, the white disappearing wholly or in 
part after the first moult. A nest of the Great Tit was lately found in a 
hollow pedestal, the entrance to which was but an inch and a quarter in 
. diameter; and though the pedestal was removed and then replaced, the 
birds did not forsake the nest, and the six eggs were duly hatched. A pair 
of Robins built a nest and reared their young in a spare room of a house 
in the town, having entered by a broken window. ‘The nest was placed on 
an iron bedstead resting against the wall.— Heyry Haprizxp (Ventnor, 
‘ Isle of Wight). 
Apnormat Nestine or tHe NutaatcH.—While staying with my uncle, 
Colonel C. L. Cocks, about three miles west of Liskeard, I observed, on 
May 24th and following days, a Nuthatch frequently going in and out of a 
small hole in the perpendicular face of a bank opposite the front of the 
house, perhaps twenty feet from the ground, and three or four from the top, 
in which it evideutly had a nest with young hatched. On referring to 
“ Yarrell ” (3rd edition), I find he only mentions holes in trees as the site 
of their nests; and the Rey. C. A. Johns, in his “ British Birds in their 
Haunts,” says the nest is “invariably placed in the hole of a tree.” 
Liskeard is also mentioned by Yarrell as the most westerly point where they 
are generally found. My uncle called my attention to the fact of their 
feeding on the grubs in oak-apples; and I subsequently picked up several 
which had been pecked by a bird’s beak, and the grubs were gone; and 
though I did not actually see a Nuthatch at work upon one, I think it will 
be allowed that they are by far the most likely birds to have done this,— 
far more so than the tits—ALFReD H. Cocks (Great Marlow, Bucks). 
[Some years ago, we remember to have seen the nest of a Nuthatch in a 
brick wall. The birds entered by an opening left by a displaced brick; 
and this hole being too large to please them, they reduced it by plastering 
mud all round the edge until it was just large enough to admit the birds. 
A still more remarkable nest of the Nuthatch came under our observation 
a year or two later. This nest was formed entirely of clay, and was of 
considerable size and weight. It was built in a haystack, where the grass- 
stems and bents, passing through the clay at intervals, contributed to 
support it in its singular position. A notice and engraving of this nest 
was, at our request, published in ‘ The Field ’ at the time.—Ep.] 
Cutrrenarr’s Nest 1x a Hoxtty.—In the last week in May I found 
a Chifichaff’s nest three feet above the ground in a young holly in the wood 
called St. Catherine’s. close to Lucan. It was made of the materials of 
