. British birds. Birds. OTES. ROOKS BUILDING IN CHIMNEYS. My attention was drawn this spring to fifteen Rooks' nests which were built in chimneys at Three Counties Asylum, Arlesey, Bedfordshire. It appears that these birds have been in the habit of doing this for, at least, five years past. There is a rookery and suitable nest trees close by, but these particular birds a]iparently prefer a chimney as a nesting site. The accumulation of twigs and other material became so great this spring that it was impossible to light fires as the chimneys refused to draw. Consequently, the nests were all tak
. British birds. Birds. OTES. ROOKS BUILDING IN CHIMNEYS. My attention was drawn this spring to fifteen Rooks' nests which were built in chimneys at Three Counties Asylum, Arlesey, Bedfordshire. It appears that these birds have been in the habit of doing this for, at least, five years past. There is a rookery and suitable nest trees close by, but these particular birds a]iparently prefer a chimney as a nesting site. The accumulation of twigs and other material became so great this spring that it was impossible to light fires as the chimneys refused to draw. Consequently, the nests were all taken out and the top of the chimneys wired ovei. I secured a nest, with a clutch of five smoky eggs, for the Letchworth Museum as a memento of this interesting event. W. Percival Westell. CETTI'S WARBLER IN SUSSEX. An example of Cetti's Warbler {Cettia c. cctti) was shot at Westfield, Sussex, on June 21st, 1916. The bird, which was examined in the flesh by Mr. T. Parkin of Hastings, proved on dissection to be a male. I met with this Warbler in some numbers in the south of France in January 1914, and the bird in question, which was shown to me, closely resembles a specimen which I obtained there. Mr. Witherby has since seen and compared the bird obtained at Westfield, and finds that it is of the typical form. G. V. Webster. BLUETHROAT IN SUSSEX. On September 28th, 1916, the wind being from the south-east, I identified an immature Bluethroat {L/iiscinia svecica) on the Eastbourne Crumbles. The bushes here are not very thick, and I was able to see very plainly the light eyestripe of the bird as well as the red of the tail. The Bluethroat seems to be an infrequent visitor to Sussex, and the local taxidermist, IVIr. Bates, has no Sussex record of the bird, nor had his father. E. C. Arnold, LATE NESTING OF SWALLOW IN CHESHIRE. On September iSth, 1916, I fomid a nest containing four yoimg Swallows [ r. nistica). They were only half. Please note that these images are extracted f
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