. British birds. Birds. 5ifl^OTES AN UNUSUAL NESTING SITE OF JAY. The site chosen for its nest by the Jay (G. g. rufitergum), shows as a rule so little variation that the following instance seems worthy of notice. At Burdelys Manor, Stagsden, in Bedfordshire, a nest was built in 1922 on one of the horizontal branches of a pear tree growing against the side of the house, the nest being placed against the wall and immediately below the projecting eaves and within one foot of a bedroom window. The nest was robbed, but a brood was subsequently reared near at hand and as a further proof of the fami
. British birds. Birds. 5ifl^OTES AN UNUSUAL NESTING SITE OF JAY. The site chosen for its nest by the Jay (G. g. rufitergum), shows as a rule so little variation that the following instance seems worthy of notice. At Burdelys Manor, Stagsden, in Bedfordshire, a nest was built in 1922 on one of the horizontal branches of a pear tree growing against the side of the house, the nest being placed against the wall and immediately below the projecting eaves and within one foot of a bedroom window. The nest was robbed, but a brood was subsequently reared near at hand and as a further proof of the familiarity of this family, when I was last at the farm, two of the young were perching on a water tub alongside the house door and there being fed by their parent. Perhaps I ought to add that during the earlier part of the year this farm house was empt5^ and, maybe partly for this reason, a pair of Magpies had selected an oak tree within the garden for their nest, and also a vixen had a litter of cubs in the bank of the moat, under 44 yards and 20 yards distance respectively from the house. J. S. Elliott. LARGE CLUTCHES OF GREENFINCH AND HEDGE- SPARROW. On June 28th, 1922, in Hertfordshire, I found a nest of Greenfinch (Chloris c. chloris) with seven eggs, an unusually large clutch, and on June i6th, iq20, in Cumberland, I took a nest of Hedge-Sparrow {Prunella m. occidcntalis) with six eggs. Percy Rendall. [Clutches of seven are unusual in the case of the Greenfinch, though I have twice met with this number personally, on both occasions in south-west Derbyshire. Messrs. J. M. Goodall and W. E. Renaut have also similar sets in their collections, and the late A. B. Earn had a clutch of eight eggs from Essex. The six set of Hedge-Sparrows' eggs is less rare and has been met with on a good many occasions, , in Berkshire (F. W. Proctor), Denbigh (S. G. Cummings), Herts (A. Ellison), Derbj^shire (F. C. R. Jourdain), Gloucester (B. Davies), as well as by D. H. Meares. A. B. Earn and
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