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young, but some still with eggs on 2oth June. On 5th July 
many fledged young were seen on Lady Island and elsewhere, 
but there was still one nest with two fresh eggs, and an old 
bird sitting upon another of five eggs. On Ioth July a pair 
was building a nest at Little Boat-house. 
SEDGE-WARBLER.—Common and abundant, but not so 
much so as the Reed-Warbler on the Mere itself. The nests 
thereabouts were chiefly in rough sedges and bushes, and none 
in reeds. A nest or two, also, in many of the hedges in 
neighbouring fields, and as far into the country as my. wan- 
derings led—never very far from the Mere. 
I went to Wassand on 2oth April, and next morning found 
many Sedge-Warblers round the Mere. Many more arrived 
early on 5th May, singing at first in fringes of reeds, etc., 
round the Mere, but within a few days giving place to Reed- 
Warblers there, and retiring to the scrub of Low Wood, etc., 
and the neighbouring hedges. There was a nest with six eggs 
on 28th May, and many fledged young by 2oth June. 
The GRASSHOPPER WARBLER was not noticed by me, nor 
did I hear of it. 
HEDGE-SPARROW.—Common, of course, and here called 
‘ Cuddy.’ 
BEARDED Tit.—Early in April, 1911, Mr. St. Quintin 
turned down three pairs of these, and a week later three more 
pairs and two odd cocks—iourteen birds in all. This was near 
the boat-house. At first they flew high into the air, but 
eventually returned to the reed-beds at the bottom of Low 
Wood, and for some time afterwards were noticed roosting in 
trees at the edge of Boat-house Wood. Towards the end of 
that summer Ake thought he saw a pair accompanied by two. 
or three young ones, but this was by no means certain. On 
21st April this year, when Mr. Wade and I rowed round the 
upper part of the Mere, and he kindly pointed out the various 
places and things of most interest to me, we saw three males 
and one female together, off Heslop’s reeds, or a little further 
towards Wassand. . John Taylor and his son had seen a male 
here some time before, and a female shortly afterwards. About 
the same spot, on 22nd April, I watched two pairs of the 
birds together, for some time before breakfast, and, with Mr. 
St. Quintin and Captain Johnstone, saw several later in the 
day, and I seldom visited this place afterwards without seeing 
some of the birds about. They were usually very fearless, 
coming down to the water’s edge to catch insects crawling 
from the water on the outer margin of the reed-beds, often 
within a boat’s length of me. On 30th April, and again 
the next day, I-watched at least two pairs collecting and 
carrying food to their young in the nest, and, marking the 
spot, had little difficulty a few days later in finding a nest, 
1913 Jan. 1. 
