. British birds. Birds. OTES. LARGE SET OF ROOKS' EGGS IN IRELAND. With reference to the notes {ant'ea, p. 19) on the finding of chitches of seven eggs in nests of the Rook {Corvusf. frugilegtis) in England, it may be of interest to know that on April 3rd, 1922, I found a set of a similar number in a large rookery in Co. Donegal. I have no previous record of seven for Ireland. C. V. Stoney. COAL-TIT HIDING BEECH-NUTS. Ox November 12th, 1922, while working in my small garden at Hampstead, I noticed a Coal-Tit {Pariis a. briiannicus) fly on to the garden fence with something in its beak, which I
. British birds. Birds. OTES. LARGE SET OF ROOKS' EGGS IN IRELAND. With reference to the notes {ant'ea, p. 19) on the finding of chitches of seven eggs in nests of the Rook {Corvusf. frugilegtis) in England, it may be of interest to know that on April 3rd, 1922, I found a set of a similar number in a large rookery in Co. Donegal. I have no previous record of seven for Ireland. C. V. Stoney. COAL-TIT HIDING BEECH-NUTS. Ox November 12th, 1922, while working in my small garden at Hampstead, I noticed a Coal-Tit {Pariis a. briiannicus) fly on to the garden fence with something in its beak, which I first thought was a berry, but subsequently discovered to be a beech-nut. I took little notice of the incident at the time, but a little later my attention was again more than once attracted by the same bird flying with a nut in its beak across the garden. I then determined to watch events more closely, and retired to a window overlooking my garden and that of my neighbour, in which stands a copper-beech tree. The tree this year bore a large amount of mast, and the ground beneath has for many weeks been visited by Great, Blue and Coal-Tits, busily engaged taking the nuts to neighbouring fences, breaking and eating them. But the Coal-Tit under observation on the 12th behaved differently ; for a space of two hours, the hour that I was in the garden and an hour that I spent watching the bird deliberately, it occupied itself exclusively in gathering nuts and hiding them in various places. No attempt was made to open a nut ; I saw it make fifty journeys in a little less than an hour with a fresh nut each time in its beak. With each of these it flew out of my neighbour's garden to return in about a minute—the journeys being made with extraordinary regularity. W^hat the bird did with all these nuts I could not say definitely as it often flew out of sight behind trees or round the corner of a building, but the bird always went with a nut and returned after a short interval without i
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