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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Nesting of the Golden-crested Wren (Regulus cristatus). — 



April 2nd, 7 a.m. A pair commenced nesting in a small Douglas 

 fir-tree in my garden. The nest only 3 ft. 6 in. from the ground. 



April 13th. Lining nest with feathers. 



April 21st. First egg laid. 



April 28th, 3 p.m. Eight eggs and not yet incubating. 



April 29th. Clutch of nine eggs and female sitting close, until 

 almost touched with my hand. 



May 8th. Eight eggs only now in nest. 



May 13th, 7 a.m. Eight eggs. 5.30 p.m. One young, seven eggs. 



May 14th, 7 a.m. Three young, five eggs. 7 p.m. Eive young, 

 three eggs. 



May loth, 7 a.m. Six young, two eggs. 7 p.m. Seven young, 

 one addled egg. 



May 16th. Six young alive, one dead. 



May 31st, 12 p.m. Young still in nest. 



June 1st, 12 p.m. All have now left the nest. 



Erom the above notes the building of nest takes eighteen days. 

 Incubation fourteen to sixteen days. Young remain in nest sixteen 

 to nineteen days. — J. Steele Elliott (Dowles Manor, Salop). 



Nesting of the Reed- Warbler (Acrocephalus streperus). — On June 

 9th I found a Eeed- Warbler's nest with four eggs, and took one for a 

 young friend. It proved to be quite fresh, so I visited the nest again 

 on the 12th for the chance of finding a Cuckoo's egg. The nest then 

 looked like a new one, hardly completed, as some of the material was 

 quite green, and I found two eggs hidden under a fresh lining ; the 

 third I could not find. The Eeed-Warbler is a curious little bird in 

 its domestic arrangements, and its nests sometimes disappear under 

 conditions which rather convey the idea that the owners have pulled 

 them to pieces and rebuilt them in another place. 



P.S. — Eeferring to the above note posted a few days ago, the 

 birds have completed the nest, which I fear I rather pulled about in 

 getting at the covered-up eggs, and the hen is sitting on four eggs. 

 I have never seen a case like it before. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock 

 Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 



Zool. 4th ser. vol. XVIII., July, 1914. Y 



