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MATURE NOTES. 
Paper again ! — I have been staying at Hadley Wood, near Barnet, where 
there is a beautiful old wood, the remains of a Royal Chase. It is the resort of 
hundreds of people, specially on Saturdays and Sundays. I went in one Sunday 
morning in June, and was shocked to find it strewn with literally hundreds of 
dirty papers — the remains, I suppose, of the Saturday visitors. Can nothing be 
done through bye-laws, or other means (such as notices on boards outside) to stop 
this vulgarization of a quiet and beautiful place ? If eating should be necessary 
for the enjoyment of scenery, the papers might be taken back by those who 
brought them. 
IVoolton, Liverpool. E. Gaskell. 
Our Badge. — It may at first, perhaps, seem to be a trifling matter, but 
possibly it may not have occurred to some of our members that a very convenient 
way to wear the badge is, after removing the pin, to bore a hole in it, and by 
means of a split ring attach it to the watch chain. It is in this way that I wear 
mine, and I do so at all times, and I think it were well if all Selbornians as far as 
possible, always wore the badge. By doing this they would proclaim to the 
world the existence of our Society, and when friends noticed our emblem, we 
could tell them of our objects and our work. Perhaps our Secretary will kindly 
consider the advisability of keeping in stock, badges so pierced, which could be 
sold cheaper than at present, possibly at a shilling. \Ve want to extend our 
operations to the utmost, and this seems to be a very sure way to help towards 
realizing our wishes. 
Slapton, Kingsbridge. GILES A. Daubeny. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Nightjar and Chiffchaff. — Can any Selbornian tell me whether the 
Nightjar is ever known to make its churring noise by day, or at any other time 
than between 7 and 10 p.m. ? Also whether the chiffchaff has any other note 
than its two well-known characteristic ones? 
Malvern. F. R. 
Flycatchers. — Having been told that birds never have a second brood in 
the same nest, I was interested this year in seeing an instance of the contrary at a 
friend’s house in the neighbourhood. A pair of flycatchers built a nest on an 
ivy-covered corner of a window-sill where they could easily be seen through the 
window, and very interesting it was to watch them. The mother bird used to 
catch flies as she sat on the nest, and later on the little ones did the same. In 
due course they were fledged, and the very same day the mother laid another egg 
in the same nest, and has brought up another brood of three which were hatched 
on July 9. Is this an exceptional instance of birds using the same nest, or is it 
peculiar to flycatchers? 
Malvern. F. R. 
Rooks at Lyme Regis. — I was much interested in your correspondent’s 
account of rooks at Lyme Regis. I was there myself a few weeks ago, and 
observed the same thing. On remarking on the novel sight of rooks solemnly 
marching about on the little Parade, only a few yards from the windows, our 
landlady said they had begun feeding them in the hard winter (January, 1895) 
when the seagulls came up to the doors too ; they left off coming when the 
weather changed, but the rooks had gone on ever since. It was funny to see 
the rooks venturing down a stone groin as far as it was uncovered by the sea, 
for as your correspondent remarks they seem averse to wetting their feet, and 
rather enviously eyeing the gulls, who swam gaily about and secured any floating 
scraps ; but apparently they had no objection to damp toes, as they joined the 
gulls in raking in the heaps of damp newly cast up seaweed (when, indeed, 
they had the advantage over them), and at low water spring tides, when a 
certain reef of seaweed rocks was uncovered, they were constantly to be seen 
stalking about and having a regular good scavenging among the crannies and 
holes. It was amusing, too, seeing the young rooks brought to enjoy the crusts 
under the windows. A fine well-grown bird, with deep bass voice, would solemnly 
