oe Tromasson, Woodside, ia, July 30, 1893. 
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opposite cliff, two pink blooms of thrift have opened, like some 
sweet memory of earlier and happier days. 
BURLINGTON, Sept. 21st, 1889.—I am sitting on a chalky hedge- 
bank on the road-side from Burlington to Speeton, in a hot 
sunshine, with a tall hedge between me and the singing north-west 
wind. I look on two old friends, the six-sailed windmill and the 
Priory Church, dark against the sun-gilt sea. All about me is life; 
many flies of many kinds, beetles running in the sunshine, 4mcho- 
menus prasinus in his green coat, faced with orange, and shining 
black Prerostichi, bright as polished jet. Euphrasia opens a hundred 
pale violet eyes to the sun, harebells depend their blue cups, and 
a thousand dried stalks of Gentiana amarella tell of former beauty, 
just a scattering of amethystine blooms remaining, the wrecks of 
a great flower-feast. A long-legged spider scuds over the path; an 
empty corn wagon goes by, carrying a crowd of singing urchins. 
Well may they sing in the glorious ee which makes this old 
world new, and sheds heaven upon 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Birds added to Sheffield Museum. e just added to the Sheffield — 
Museum the cet — Neste gr in ond area fasbeded to the cognisance of ‘ The 
borough, 1890 ; bit z Ch Satins Grebe (Bodiceps A eereerg shot at Flamborough, 
1892; one Crested Grube shot at sings Lincoln ne Aig = Little om 
or Dabchick (Podiceps minor) shot asa orton ose ; com yshire, I 
E. HowartH, Curator, Public Museum, Weston Park, Sheffield, Wy rith, 1893- 
Nesting of the Hawfinch io " Notts.—The Hawfinch (Coccothraustes 
vulgaris) is fairly common in this district, and in the last spring I have been 
looking far and wide for its nest, but unsuccessfully ; and now I find all thistime 
one within ich I am now 
there has been almost a stone’s-cast of the room in 
young, four in number, got off the last week in June, a a rather 
late date, and since this, with the parents, have attentive 
t rows. From closely watching them, however, I can that the 
injury = the is trifling as — oe that inflicted by 
common cig Haw era n three 
the Meadow Pipit in the in the North.—Having lately found 
tensis on the 
ag . fells, I give the number 0 of eggs i 
found in them, showing an —— of of 553 ems eggs per nest. oe 
oe ‘Three e gs each 
See oo . ae re 
FO - yy 3 ive: “ 
Two ie four - 
One 
: » three eggs. oo 
In every case the bird was flus hed from the nest, which indeed Ted to thei being a 
found. In the last case the bird would doubtless have three eggs» 
All the e ae June. In Norway the Meadow Dipit asa rle neste 
_ T found a nest near weep only above the sek JO8N F 
