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SUMMARY OF BRANCH PAYMENTS. 
Made during the Financial Year ending March 31, 1908. 
Branch. Paid for Nature Notes. Contributions. 
Abinger and Shere .. 
£i 
14 
8 
£0 
8 
6 
Bath (1906) 
— 
3 
0 
0 
Birmingham 
9 
6 
8 
6 
2 
Blackburn (1906) 
I 
19 
0 
0 
9 
0 
Brighton 
2 
18 
6 
0 
10 
0 
Croydon (1906) 
4 
19 
8 
0 
10 
I 
,, (1907) 
Brent Valley and Richmond 
4 
17 
6 
— 
7 
1 1 
8 
3 
*7 
6 
Farnham 
2 
7 
8 
I 
2 
0 
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— 
(Donatio 
n) 10 
0 
0 
Hammersmith and Fulham (1906) .. 
— 
0 
5 
9 
Hampstead 
4 
19 
8 
I 
2 
6 
Rape of Lewes (1907) 
I 
8 
2 
0 
6 
6 
,, ,, (1908) 
Rother Valley (Midhurst) ... 
I 
6 
0 
— 
1 
10 
0 
0 
12 
0 
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Wimbledon and Putney 
— 
(Donation) l 
0 
0 
I 
13 
4 
I 
0 
8 
£40 
12 
6 
i:i8 
10 
8 
The subscriptions from the Kensington Branch have been received in full for 
1907, and these are included under the heading of subscriptions. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Our Frontispiece. — The first volume of Nature Notes 
had for frontispiece a picture of St. Francis of Assisi, under 
the title of “A Mediaeval Selbornian ” ; the last volume had a 
portrait of our President, Lord Avebury ; and now, by permis- 
sion of the Proprietors of Punch, we have the two combined in 
a picture of our President as “ A Modern St. Francis,” a propos 
of his introducing the Plumage Bill. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
625. Curious Nesting’ Places. — It is interesting to record the stiange 
and, in some cases, unthinkable places which have been chosen for nesting pur- 
poses by many birds during the present close season. There is no doubt that 
the backwardness of spring has had much to do with it, as the following 
instances will show : — 
At Lindfield, Susse.x, a thrush’s nest, in which were four eggs, was found in 
a policeman’s helmet. Peculiar as the place may seem, might one not think the 
bird sought this thick headgear — which had been discarded — as a more sheltering 
refuge from the devastating elements than the bare hedge or tree. But there is 
no like excuse to be made for a mistle-thrush, who utilised the ledge of a monu- 
ment in the cemetery at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on which to build her nest. 
In spite of the visitors who passed by her, the bird was reported to be sitting on 
four eggs. 
Starlings, 1 believe, are possessed of erratic natures. It is well known they 
