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la our garden which only contains about one acre of ground, few 
trees and no water, we generally have the following birds nesting 
in boxes and other snug corners Spotted Flycatcher, Songthrush, 
Blackbird, Redbreast, Redstart, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Cole Tit, 
House Sparrow, Starling, Wryneck, Tree Creeper, Wren, Nuthatch, 
Swallow, and House Martin ; besides others nesting in trees, 
bushes, and on the ground, viz. — -Missel Thrush, Songthrush, 
Blackbird, Hedge Warbler, Golden crested Regulus, Blackcap, 
Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 
Longtailed Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, 
Tree pipit, Ringdove, Redlegged Partridge, and common Partridge. 
Many other species of birds might easily be had if the garden was 
larger and had in it a stream or a pond, and a rough plantation and 
a sand pit. 
Sand martins and Kingfishers may be enticed by making a sand 
pit even when there is no water within half a mile of the spot. 
Near our garden was a dry pit entirely over-grown with weeds and 
brambles ; some men in digging marl exposed a few square feet of 
sand in the side of this pit, two or three days afterwards a pair of 
Kingfishers bored into this sand and laid their usual complement 
of seven eggs, although the men Avere still at work in the pit, and 
the nearest Avater (a small ditch) was about half a mile off. Still 
nearer our garden a few loads of sand were taken out of a field 
making an excavation about six feet square and only three feet 
deep; a feAV days after this Avas made, tAventy pairs of sand martins 
bored into and nested in it. Tree sparrows also nest in the side of 
a pit near some cottages in Sparham. 
SAvallows are fond of nesting inside open buildings such as barns, 
stables, sheds, and under bridges ; they also build inside such 
chimneys as have ledges about three feet beloAv the top. House 
martins generally build under the eaves if there is suitable clay 
or mud in the neighbourhood, except when whitewash or other 
colouring matter prevents their nests from adhering to the Avail by 
flaking off from the Avail Avith the nest ; these birds seem to be 
rather particular about the shape of the caves, and I think they 
nest more abundantly near the sea cost than inland. 
In a cart shed near our house there are square holes on the Avall- 
plate round tAvo sides of the shod, these holes, Avhich are merely the 
spaces left between the ends of the rafters, once contained eight 
