128 THE ZOOLOGIST, 
good opportunity for observations. In addition to the pellets 
in a tub put up for Owls, its hollow trunk contained a congeries 
of remains which, when I saw them, I directed my man to 
collect and soak in water, that we might have still more evi- 
dence wherewith to refute the gamekeepers. After throwing 
away the fur and all the lesser bones there remained over one 
hundred and twenty skulls, which consisted of eighty-six Long- 
and Short-tailed Field-Mice, twenty-six Rats (some of them very 
small), nineteen Shrew-Mice, and the skulls of two birds which 
appeared to belong to a Sparrow and a very small chicken. 
After they were thrown away I regretted I had not had them all 
pbotographed spread out on a board. 
13th.—A Reeve’s nest with four eggs on the Broads, of which 
Miss Turner has already published an excellent account in 
‘ British Birds,’ p. 66. 
21st.—N.W. A very good adult Spoonbill, probably a new 
arrival, on Breydon Broad, but, though protected, it only stayed 
two days (Jary). 
23rd.—Caught an old hen Hawfinch and four young ones 
under our pea-net, implying a nest not far off, which may have 
been the case, as we also saw two here in April, and later in 
June three more came. 
25th.—Hawtlinches taking peas badly at Westwick (M. C. 
Bird). A Grasshopper-Warbler’s nest with eggs near Fakenham 
(Q. EK. Gurney). 
27th.—A fairly good number of Bearded Tits reported to be 
breeding on the Broads (Miss Turner). A young Redshankt 
hatched in an incubator by Mr. H. Wormald is now eight 
weeks old. 

JULY. 
6th.—A Quail’s nest with nine eggst in it mown over by hay- 
makers at Ingham (R. Gurney). At Haddiscoe a pair of Black- 
birds developed a mania for nest-building, completing, I am 
informed by Mr. L. C. Farman, twelve nests but laying no eggs. 
One nest which they built on the top of a paled gate was taken 
possession of by a pair of Pied Wagtails. The Blackbirds 
finished off their operations with a twin nest of two cups joined 
together, after which the female broke her wing against a wire 
linen-line (Farman). There was not a single Heron’s nest at 
