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NATURE NOTES 
Dragon” at 5.30 p.m., after which the village church was visited. The oldest 
part is the east chancel wall, which is early twelfth century. The window on the 
south wall contains some pieces of glass showing Henry VII. and his Queen, 
which came from the Mote, Ightham. On the south of the chancel is a fine 
alabaster tomb, with two effigies in recumbent positions, to the memory of 
members of the Sellry family, once of the Mote. On the eastern chancel wall is 
a large monument to Dame Selby, who is said to have revealed the gunpowder 
plot to Lord Monteagle. The illustration of the Oldbury Rock-Shelters, showing 
the natural washing away, is here reproduced by kind permission of The hlome- 
land Association, from their admirable publication : — “ Ightham, the Story of a 
Kentish Village,” by Mr. F. J. Bennett, F.G.S. 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
Council and Committee Meetings.' 
Monday , November 18. — General Purposes Committee at 5.30 p.m. 
Tuesday, November 26. — Council Meeting at 5.30. p.m. 
Fungus Foray. — The Annual Fungus Foray of the Essex Field Club, in 
which Members of the Selborne Society are permitted to take part, will be held 
at Oak Hill Farm, Theydon Bois, on Saturday, November 2. The first collecting 
party will leave Loughton Station at 10.50 a.m. (on arrival of the to o’clock 
train from Liverpool Street). Afternoon visitors should take train direct to 
Theydon Bois. Trains from Liverpool Street 12.24, 1.35, and 2.8; from Fen- 
church Street, 12.28, 1.8, and 2.12. Tea, at Oak Hill Farm, about a mile from 
Theydon Station, at 5 p.m. Fare, is. 4d. return ; tea and expenses, 2«. 6d. 
Saturday, November 23. — British Museum (Natural History), Cronnvell 
Road, South Kensington. Assemble in the Central Hall at 2.30 p.m. Dr. A. B. 
Rendle has kindly consented to give a demonstration of the special exhibits of 
memorials of Linnaeus. 
All communications respecting Excursions should be addressed to Mr. II. II. 
Poole, Hon. Excursion Secretary, at 16, Heathcote Street, W.C. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Eldon Pratt. — The birds described seem to have been Blackbirds in im- 
mature plumage. Though there is no d priori impossibility about a cross between 
the Blackbird and another species of Thrush, such a thing does not seem to have 
been actually recorded. 
W O. Stapledon. — Were not the two birds two hen Blackbirds, or male 
and female in immature plumage ? 
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