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of nesting-boxes at Boldre, Milton, Avon Tyrrell, and 
elsewhere in the county. 
The box in which it built at Milton was about nine 
inches square, stoutly constructed, covered with virgin-cork, 
and entered by a hole i\ inches in diameter. It was 
placed on the north side of a sycamore, about seven feet 
from the ground, and was furnished, by Mr. Stares' advice, 
with a little sawdust. 
Mr. W. T. Pearce informs us that it nests in the earth- 
works at Stokes Bay. 
There has been some difference of opinion as to the 
occasional arrival of the bird as early as March. White 
gives March 5th as the earliest date, and places it second 
to the chiffchaff only in his list of summer visitors. 
Mr. Meade-Waldo writes that it often arrives by the 
end of that month, and Dr. Arnold says that he saw 
one and heard another at Emsworth on March 19th, 
1903, and heard it again on the very same spot on 
March 25th, 1904. There could be no more favourable 
spot than Emsworth on the mainland for catching the 
migrants on their first arrival. 
Wise also gives " about the end of March and beginning 
of April." 
Miss Ethel Chawner says that the New Forest wood- 
men call it the " rinding bird," because it appears when 
the bark-strippers are at work. The name is given also 
by the authors of the Birds of Sussex and of Surrey. 
The name "barley bird" is shared with others which 
make themselves conspicuous at the same season. 
Miss Yonge has said that the wryneck is "so hard 
to see, because it always keeps on the side of the tree 
opposite to the spectator, or rather, non-spectator;" but 
we think it more probable that the bird's protective 
