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a few yards of the same spot. In this case the nest was on 

 the ground in a bunch of similar tangle, and in both instances 

 the bird was seen at the nest. Clifford Boreer. 



George Baynes. 

 [Near the coast it is not uncommon to find Linnets breeding 

 among the tussocks of coarse grass and among the sand- 

 dunes. References to cases of this kind will be found in 

 the Zoologist, 1868, p. 1319 (Spurn Pt.) ; 1902, p. 60 (near 

 Rye), and 1904, p. 250 (Littlestone) . In the Birds of 

 Kent, p. 156, it is stated that " at Littlestone and Camber 

 it nests freely on the ground in the clumps of marram 

 grass."— F.C.R.J.] 



COCK HOUSE-SPARROW ASSISTING TO INCUBATE. 



On May 25th, 1913, I noticed a cock House-Sparrow {Passer 

 d. domesticus) in a nest about six feet from the ground. 

 Wondering if the bird was incubating or brooding, I caught 

 it on the nest, and found that it had been incubating three 

 eggs which were within about forty-eight hours of hatching. 

 This is the first proof I have obtained of the cock House- 

 Sparrow helping to incubate, although I have known instances 

 of brooding even when only part of the eggs were hatched. 



J. H. Owen. 

 [Although Naumann distinctly states {Vogel Miiteleuropas, 

 III, p. 366) that the eggs are incubated by both sexes in turn, 

 the experience of most naturalists is that the female is always 

 found on the eggs. More observations are evidently needed 

 on this point.— F.C.R.J.] 



RED-THROATED PIPITS IN SUSSEX. 



On May 22nd, 1913, a couple of adult male Red-throated 

 Pipits {Anthus cervinus) were obtained at Hooe, Sussex, and 

 were examined by me in the flesh on May 23rd. The colour 

 of the neck and breast was distinctly of a rusty-red, and the 

 feathers on the back and rump had dark brown stripes, as 

 described in Dr. N. F. Ticehurst's Birds of Kent. The under 

 tail-coverts of one had bro^^n stripes, but these were absent 

 in the other specimen. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



GOLDCREST NESTING IN NORTH ANGLESEY. 



As the Goldcrest [Regulus r. anglorum) had not at the 

 date of publication of my Vertebrate Faima of North Wales 

 been identified as resident in North Anglesey, it may be 

 worth noting that on May 14th, 1913, Mr. W. Glynne Edwards 

 found a half-built nest in Llynnan Wood near Holyhead, 

 and saw both the birds. On visiting the place three weeks 



