This.fpecles is very local ; is found in Yorkfliire, Lanca- 
fhire, and Derby lli Ire ; we have alfo met with it at Enfield 
in Middlefex, and at Peckham in Surrey ; in the laft-men- 
tioned place 'we had an opportunity of becoming acquainted 
with its manners, in the fummer of 1812. We did not notice 
it till the young were about five or fix days old ; the neft was 
formed in a hole in an old willow pollard, at about feven feet 
from the ground ; it v/as compofed of a few hairs, fome dry 
grafs, and fibres ; they were feven young ones, and their 
appetites were fo infatiate, that the parent birds were on wing 
during the greateft part of the day feeking food, which confifts 
entirely of infeds ; as foon as either had caught an infe6l, it 
flew to the tree and uttered a fiirill fqueak, when the young 
immediately opened their mouths, and the morfel feeijied 
indifcriminately given to the neareH: one : we noticed them 
for many hours, and on the average, each of the parents re- 
turned to the neft about twelve times in five minutes. 
The young were able to leave the neft in about two weeks 
after our firft acquaintance with them ; at firft they perched 
on fome (lender twigs, projecting immediately from the fide 
of the hole where they were neftled, and attempted to catch 
any infect that palTed them, but without leaving the branch, 
the old birds ftill continuing to feed them ; in a (hort time 
they ventured to fpring up from the bough at any pafting 
infect, and returned immediately to the fame fpot again, and 
if the effort was fuccefsful they inftantly flirted up their tail. 
When they had left the neft about two weeks, they ventured 
on wing, and it was particularly amufing to obferve their firft 
attempts at taking their prey ; at a few yards from the tree 
was 
