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whero he was standing, when, creeping carefully towards them, as 
they laid straggling on the marsh, he threw a sack he had been 
carrying over the two, and then killed them both. The Owl was 
brought next day to one of our Norwich birdstuffers, and the 
species thus identified. 
Guillemot inland. On the morning of the 2nd of December, 
a common Guillemot was captured in the garden of the Eev. T. S. 
Norgate, at Sparham, some 15 miles from the coast, flapping about 
on the gravel walk, but apparently quite uninjured. 
Blue Tit and Redstart nesting in Human Skulls. The 
following strange incident was lately communicated to me by the 
Rev. W. Blyth, of Fincham, near Downham, in Norfolk, respect- 
ing a nesting place of the common Blue Tit. “Early in the 
present century,” he writes, “say 1804 or 1805, a man named 
Bennett was tried at Thetford, executed and gibbeted, in a certain 
lane at Wereham, for the murder of bis master, one John Filby. 
About 1819, John Camplin, of this parish, now aged 75, 
had the bold curiosity to climb the gibbet and examine the 
skeleton. On reaching the head there flew out, first, an old Blue 
Tit, and after her the terrified family of nine or ten ; one only 
remained, and was secured by the venturesome explorer.” A 
somewhat similar freak on the part of a Redstart, came under 
my notice last summer at Saffron Walden where, in Mr. Gibson’s 
garden, a large number of skeletons, forming part as was supposed 
of a Saxon burial ground, were then exposed to view. In one of 
the skulls, gaining access to the interior through one of the orbits, 
a Redstart had made a nest and hatched her young. 
