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the past masters of the art will admit. Now, to remedy this I use a glass 
tube with one end drawn to a point and the other connected with a small 
india-rubber ball (I always use the instrument supplied with a stylographic 
den for refilling). If the point be inserted into the egg to be blown, after 
the hole has been drilled, and the ball gently pressed with the finger and 
thumb, the contents of the egg will begin to be evacuated; the air-pressure 
can be regulated to the greatest nicety with very little practice. Sometimes 
it seems to answer better to reverse the action of the instrument by 
expelling the air from the bulb and then inserting the pointed end; on the 
pressure being removed the egg-contents are either drawn up into the tube 
or if there seems to be anything stopping their being sucked up, if the tube 
be cautiously withdrawn, the cause of the obstruction may be drawn to the 
hole in the egg, still being held to the point of the instrument by the 
suction, and may then be caught by the forceps and dealt with in the usual 
way. After the contents of the egg have been evacuated, the instrument 
can be used as a syringe to thoroughly wash out the interior. Should any 
of the readers of ‘The Zoologist’ employ this method of egg-blowing, I 
should be very pleased to hear of its success in their hands. — HerBerr 
Laneron (115, Queen’s Road, Brighton). 
A New Heronry in Suffolk. — Early last year a party of Herons were 
seen frequenting Lord Waveney’s estate at Flixton. Care was taken not 
to disturb them, and they took up nesting-quarters in a grove of large oaks 
near the Hall. Six nests were built here, and one more in a neighbouring 
wood. In the same grove there has been for many years a large rookery. 
For some time after the Herons appeared quarrels took place, and the new- 
comers were seen chased by the Rooks, but the differences seem eventually 
to have been settled. This year there are at present (March 20th) three 
Herons’ nests in the oak grove, while the Rooks’ nests in the vicinity of the 
Herons’ trees are untenanted. The keeper tells me that, until last year, no 
Herons had reared young at Flixton; but as they will be sure of protection 
there, and the River Waveney, within two miles, will give them a good food 
supply, it is to be hoped they will permanently establish themselves in the 
park, and another name will be added to the list of Suffolk heronries.— 
C. CanpiErR (Harleston, Norfolk). 
Late Stay in Autumn of the Green Sandpiper. — The Green Sand- 
piper, which was much more common than usual in North Oxon during the 
past autumn, made a rather late stay with us. On November 8th I watched 
a party of five on the mud at Clattercutt Reservoir; and on the 19th a 
female example was picked up under the telegraph-wires at Somerton, and 
came into my possession the next day. ‘The stomach of this bird only con- 
tained a few wing-cases and other remains of minute beetles; it was, how- 
ever, in very good condition, the musky odour not particularly strong. On 
