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February 1st, by the end of the month the young in the nests were 

 heard calling loudly and strongly for food, and by February 8th all in 

 that wood were apparently hatched. They generally begin building 

 in that locality in February, but January 15th was the earliest date 

 that has come under my notice since the birds came to the wood 

 over forty years ago. — Bobert Warren (Ardnaree, Monkstown, 

 Co. Cork). 



Herons breeding twice in the Season.— For many years, seeing 

 very young Herons in July and August, I was puzzled as to whether 

 these birds really reared two broods, or whether the late young birds 

 were the produce of parents that had lost their first clutch of eggs 

 or young by the nests being blown down during the March storms. 

 However, in May, 1896, my doubts were cleared. Within sixty 

 yards of Moy View Cottage, in the spring of 1896, a pair of Herons 

 built a nest in a tree alongside the path leading from the house to the 

 shore, and were daily under our notice while hatching and rearing 

 their young ; these were fully fledged by the end of April. On May 

 7th we observed the old birds beginning to build a second nest in a 

 fir-tree in the garden about thirty yards from a bedroom window, but 

 the second day I was attracted by a great noise, as if the birds were 

 scolding or fighting. However, on going out to the garden, I found 

 that the young birds had followed the old ones to where they were at 

 the new nest, and the uproar was caused by the young ones per- 

 sistently following the old birds and calling for food, and by the 

 old birds scolding and driving the young ones away from the new 

 nest. So here the doubts as to a second brood were solved by seeing 

 the young of the first nest following and annoying their parents by 

 clamouring for food when they should have been feeding themselves. 

 — Eobert Warren (Ardnaree, Monkstown, Co. Cork). 



Correction. — Mr. Owen wishes to make a correction to his recent 

 communication, " An Account of a Eamble with the Birds in Anglesey 

 and Carnarvonshire " {ante, p. 310). For " Anglesey " (top line, p. 311) 

 substitute " a small village in Carnarvonshire." 



