148 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Up to 7 p.m. the next day no more were laid, but by 10 there 

 was another. Another bird laid an egg after 12 in the day, and 

 another between 7 a.m. and the evening. On the 22nd and 24th 

 of March, 1879, a Thrush was on her nest laying at exactly 

 11.9 a.m., but at 10.45 on the 26th. 



On June 22nd, 1877, a Spotted Flycatcher laid before 10 a.m., 

 and on June 6th, 1881, another laid before 7 a.m. On July 3rd, 

 1877, a Sedge Warbler laid her first egg before 9 a.m., before 

 7.30 next day, and before 6.30 the day after. A Garden Warbler 

 laid an egg before 7 a.m. on May 17th, 1880. On June 10th, 1879, 

 a Wheatear laid its second egg before 11.30 a.m., the next egg 

 between 5 that evening and 11.30 next morning, and the fourth 

 egg before 6.45 the morning after. A Yellowhammer's nest which 

 I watched had no fresh egg up to 10 a.m. on June 21st, 1877. 

 A Sky Lark's nest which I found one evening in May, 1880, 

 received no more eggs up to 2 p.m. the following day; but 

 another nest, which I found in May last, had two eggs one 

 evening and three by 5.15 the next morning, but no more up 

 to 7 p.m. My friend Mr. J. B. Ellis, of Leicester, watched a 

 Lark's nest, which received an egg between 3 and 5 p.m. on 

 June 4th, 1879. 



On May 7th, 1880, 1 discovered a Chiffchaff 's nest, which had 

 received an egg before 12 o'clock. Three other eggs in the same 

 nest I ascertained to have been laid before 8, 6, and 6 a.m. 

 respectively, and since the previous evening. On the same day 

 a Willow Wren laid an egg before 6 a.m., but since the previous 

 evening. Two Linnet's nests, which I watched on May 4th, 1881, 

 each received an egg before 7 a.m., and the next day one of 

 them had another before 6 a.m. — in each case since the pre- 

 vious evening. Mr. Ellis watched a good many Linnets in 

 1879, and they always laid before 7 a.m., though sometimes 

 they missed a day. A Canary, whose nest I watched in 

 May, 1878, laid in the morning before 7, but two eggs 

 belonging to a second brood were deposited about 8.30 and 

 7.30 a.m. respectively. 



A Chaffinch was watched in April, 1880, and laid before 

 7 a.m., but nothing more was added up to 6.30 p.m. A few days 

 later two Chaffinch's nests received no eggs between 8 a.m. and 

 6 p.m., but both had another before 7 next morning. In 1882 

 a Chaffinch laid between 6.15 p.m. and 9 a.m., and between the 



