336 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
_ A pair of Crows had built their nest in a small plantation of 
beeches, which two Sparrow-Hawks had also chosen for a similar 
purpose, the respective trees being but a step or two from each 
other. In the course of my observations on the hawks, I made 
the following slight notes on the feeding of the young Crows by 
their parents :— 
June 25th.—Get under my newly-made shelter at 5.50 p.m., 
and a few minutes afterwards the young Crows begin to cry 
in the nest. ‘They are answered by a “‘ quor”’ or two, and one 
of the parents passes over where I sit. A little while after- 
wards both sail silently above me, evidently without seeing me. 
Somewhere towards 7 one of the birds settles silently on a 
skirting tree of the plantation—then in a few minutes flies from 
it to another one nearer the nest. There is then a long wait, 
till at 7.15 either this or the other parent—but I think this 
same one—flies to the nest, her arrival being preluded by some 
cries from the chicks. She disappears into the nest, and is 
evidently feeding them. After a little she comes out and flies 
from the tree, and the other parent is, as it seems to me, on the 
point of entering the nest, in his turn, when his mate, flying 
over my shelter, unfortunately sees me, and raises a loud cry. 
The one at the nest stands, as it were, petrified for a moment 
or two, then, with an answering cry, flies after her, and both, 
settling in trees just behind me, raise a terrible clamour. They 
cannot, as I gather, quite make me out, but see that something 
is there, and suspect the worst. They are excited, indignant, 
and keep up a constant vociferation of loud, deep, expostulatory 
‘‘quors.” So great is the noise that I almost fear someone’s 
curiosity may be excited, but the place is lonely, curiosity of the 
sort, perhaps, not much in evidence, and nobody comes. At 
last, still clamouring discontentedly, both the birds fly away, 
though one of them, now, at 7.380, has entered the plantation 
again. 
June 27th.—In the plantation before light, and get under a 
shelter which I had either made or improved the day before. 
At 4.5, 4.14, 4.87, and 5 o’clock the chicks were fed by one 
of the parent Crows, who came alone, but whether it was each 
time the same one or the two alternately I am unable to say. 
The fifth visit, however, was at 5.2, so that, on account of the 
