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at the beginning of August. This year I was staying over the August 

 Bank-holiday in the same village, and the following was the result of 

 a few hours' birdsnesting quite alone : — One Swallow, two eggs ; 

 House-Martin, many with young ; one Wren, young nearly fledged ; 

 one Spotted Flycatcher, young fully fledged ; five Linnets, with three 

 to sis eggs in each ; one Linnet, with young ; two Turtle-Doves, each 

 with two eggs; five Tree- Sparrows, with four to sis eggs each; one 

 Tree- Sparrow, hatching; five Tree-Sparrows, fully fledged young ; two 

 Corn-Buntings, each three eggs ; one Greenfinch, five eggs ; two 

 Hedge-Sparrows, each three eggs; two Yellowhammers, three and four 

 eggs ; one Common Whitethroat, three eggs. I also had the pleasure 

 of listening to a Quail for a considerable time on the evening of 

 August 5th. Its incessant call of " "Wet, my feet " was very difficult 

 to localize, and although I tried to get close to it, I could not be sure 

 whether it was calling from amongst the standing corn or from the 

 adjoining field of clover. — Robert H. Read (Bedford Park, W.). 



Curious Experience with a Savage Cock. — At a farm at Leiston, 

 Suffolk, a cock had been reared as a pet, and as sometimes happens 

 with other animals so treated, he not only became very tame and 

 fearless, but also savage and aggressive. He attacked a little boy of 

 about seven, and struck his spur into the child's legs, breaking it off, 

 and leaving it sticking in the flesh. The boy himself pulled it out and 

 brought it to his father.— G. T. Rope (Blashall, Suffolk). 



[This occurrence is not altogether unusual. As a young man I 

 kept some very fine white pile, duckwing, game fowls of the Chichester 

 strain. The cock bird was extremely pugnacious, and if I attempted 

 to take eggs from the nests when he was at roost, would fly from his 

 perch to attack me. On one occasion I saw my mother beating a hasty 

 retreat from the fowl-run, with the chanticleer hanging on to her gown 

 with his bill, and actively applying his spurs to her dress. — Ed.] 



Corrigenda. — P. 314, line 3, for clizip read chzip. P. 314, line 6, 

 for then read there. P. 315, line Si, for often read softer. — 0. V. Aplin. 



PISCES. 



Rare Fish at Yarmouth. — On July 10th I received from a local 

 fish merchant named Beazor a magnificent fish, some two feet in 

 length, and seven pounds in weight, which, after a careful survey, I 

 pronounced to be a Plain Bonito (Auxis rochet), which it somewhat 

 resembled. It had been taken in a drift-net a few hours previous to 

 coming into my hands by the Yarmouth drifter ' Martha.' Mr. T. 



