. British birds. Birds. OTES. LATE NESTING OF THE LINNET. A Linnet {Cardnelis. c. cannahina) is now sitting on five eggs in a pear tree in my garden at Blackheath, Kent (Septem- ber 13th, 1922), which is later than the nests mentioned in the Field of 9th instant, viz., August 26th. The number of eggs appears large for this species, so late in the season. Percy iThe latest date on which eggs of the Linnet have been found, as far as I am aware, is October 28th, 1887, when a nest with four eggs was found near Brighton (Zool., 1888, p. 105). Young birds have been met with in the nest in S
. British birds. Birds. OTES. LATE NESTING OF THE LINNET. A Linnet {Cardnelis. c. cannahina) is now sitting on five eggs in a pear tree in my garden at Blackheath, Kent (Septem- ber 13th, 1922), which is later than the nests mentioned in the Field of 9th instant, viz., August 26th. The number of eggs appears large for this species, so late in the season. Percy iThe latest date on which eggs of the Linnet have been found, as far as I am aware, is October 28th, 1887, when a nest with four eggs was found near Brighton (Zool., 1888, p. 105). Young birds have been met with in the nest in September, both in Oxfordshire and Yorkshire, but of course such cases are quite E. C. R. Jourdaix'.] FOOD T.\KEN BY HOUSE-SPARROW IN A GARDEN. A GOOD deal has been written on the harm that the House- Sparrow {Passer d. domesticus) does, so that it may be as well to put on record my experience to the contrarj^ No doubt there is a good deal to be said against the bird in the cornfield, when the grain is ripe, but in my garden it effectually keeps down the green fly or aphis on ni}'^ rose and rambler rose trees, besides catching on the wing, the small codlin moth [Carpocapsa pomoncUa), whose larva does so much havoc among apples. I have watched them on many occasions systematically taking the larvae of the small cabbage white butterfly {Pieris rapce) off cabbages, and the larvae of a small moth (Pyraitsta piirpnralis) from the terminal shoots of mint, and from between spun-up leaves of the apple. On one occasion this year, in the early dry spring, they did the only piece of damage I have yet come across, by snipping off the juicy flower shoots of a small clump of cloves. This, however, was owing to my omitting to put out the usual pan of water. As soon as I did so the remaining clumps of cloves were left untouched. After a good feed of bread crumbs I watched them fly straight to the ramblers, there to feed on the green aphides, the juices of the rambler imbibed by th
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