merely touched, will caufe the female to forfake the 

 neft. I recoiled, however, one inftance of an en- 

 tirely different nature,- in which a redftart's neft 

 was built in a fmall fummer-houfe immediately ad- 

 joining to a dwelling-houfe, and where many of the 

 family frequently came during the greater part of 

 the day : yet the birds continued their operations 

 without any apparent embarraffment, and reared 

 their offspring with perfecT: compofure. I might 

 alfo add that the eggs were more than once examined 

 and difplaced during the abfence of the female. 



