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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



By W. H. Bath. 



Lapwings are very plentiful at Wood 

 farm. I saw vast flocks on ploughed fields 

 when I was there. Their flight is very pecu- 

 liar, turning over from side to side in the air, 

 and look very pretty if the sun is shining 

 upon them, turning over their black and 

 white sides alternately, and gambolling and 

 darting up and down as though they were 

 possessed. The flaps of their wings can be 

 heard a long way off. The farmers do not 

 like to shoot them because they do good in 

 eating the worms. Once in May I went into 

 a ploughed field where they had laid their 

 eggs in great abundance. The whole flock 

 came flying round me, uttering cries of 

 " Peweet, peweet." Some darted within a 

 couple of yards off my head flapping their 

 wings, while others ran along the ground 

 close to where I was standing and pretended 

 to be lame, in order to draw me away from 

 their eggs. They are very difficult to find 

 to an unexperienced ornithologist, looking 

 so very much like the ground on which they 

 are placed. 



Stock Doves (C. anas) build in low bushes. 

 In August I saw several nests built in bushes. 

 Some were overhanging pits of water. The 

 nests were composed of small twigs like those 

 of wood pigeons, but were on a smaller scale. 

 One contained a pair of full-grown young 

 ones which flew away at our approach. 



Wood Pigeons (C. palumbus) build in pine 

 trees, and I have often seen them build in 

 hedges. Several nests in August contained 

 eggs and young ones. One pigeon sitting 

 on a nest containing newly hatched young 

 wouldn't fly off till I had thrown several 

 sticks up to her. At any other time they 

 are very wild. The flaps of a wood pigeon's 

 wings are quite startling when it rises up to 

 fly. Mr. A. R. H. says that the way he 

 shoots them is to lie in wait for them under 

 brushwood in the evening when they are 



