This disturbed the cock much; he watched them for a few seconds and then took hold of the worm between the two bills, but it did not come in half, so he did it again, with the same I want of success. He then caught hold of it and pulled it up out of the throat of the young one who had had a worm before and gave it into the bill of the one who had not.

April 15. I think that the young have to-day been fed on elm seeds as well as worms, as I saw several elm seeds on the edge of the nest, and there are no elm branches from which they could have dropped; also, I looked carefully on the ground underneath and could find none.

The hen is now very little on the nest, except at night and when it rains or hails, when she covers over the nest most carefully with her half-stretched wings. She still feeds the young

very little, but sits on a branch near and watches them. The cock works very hard.

April 16. Very windy from the north, so that the nest caught the wind. The young birds kept as low as they could, but they are now so big that they could at best only be flat with the edge.

When I first looked, at about 9.30 a.m., there were no elm seeds on the edge of the nest, but when I came again, soon after 10.0, there was one. After I had watched a few minutes, one of the young birds raised its head somewhat and opened its bill a little, slightly shaking its head. It then ejected an elm seed out of its mouth on to the edge of the nest. This it did three times at intervals of about half a minute; one fell into the nest and the last caught on its feathers, very likely taken there by the wind. It then settled down quietly. In a minute or two the cock came with worms, and the young bird of the elm seeds seemed the most excited to be fed, and got the most. After the cock had fed them, he carefully picked the seed off the young one, but did not pay any attention to the two on the edge of the nest or to the one in the nest, which last he could not see, as the young covered it.

7.30 p.m. The cock came and fed the young birds, but I do not think the hen came to them at all after that. I watched till

it was so dark, almost 8 o'clock, that I could not see any more, and she had not come then. This is the first night that she has not slept on the nest.

April 17. The birds are a fortnight old to-day.

One is much more advanced than the others; it has now got rid of all the down on the head and back, and is quite covered with feathers there and on its breast; it nearly always sits on top of the others. The cock was this morning very careful to

feed one of those underneath.

April 18. One of the young birds must have flown, as I can only see two, and the third was so very lively yesterday.

II.O a.m. The hen came and fed them with something round (ivy berries or elm seeds) and flew away.

11.3 a.m. Cock came and fed young with worms. I had, unfortunately, to go away till

12.30 p.m., when another young bird had gone, the second strongest one.

12.57 p.m. Cock came and fed the one young bird with ivy berries; hen came directly, cleaned nest, and flew away.

I picked up a quantity of elm seeds just under the nest this morning.

1.4 p.m. Cock came, fed young one, and flew away.

1.11 p.m. Cock came again, fed young one with elm seeds, and flew away.

1.20 p.m.

Cock came, fed young one, and flew away; he always goes now in the direction of the elm trees and ivy. Cock came, fed young on ivy berries, and flew

1.25 p.m.

away.

1.27 p.m. Hen came, fed young, and flew away. Cock came, fed young, and flew away.

1.28 p.m.

2.40 p.m. The young bird is sitting up on the edge of the nest, and seems quite excited and ready to fly. 2.44 p.m. Cock came, fed young, flew away.

bird has retired into the nest again.

The young

2.55 p.m. The young bird makes little noises, and has made an excursion about a foot along a branch; it seemed rather

nervous, and, after looking round a little, came back to the nest and made more little noises like a small rattle.

3.2 p.m. Hen came, looked at young one, and flew away.

3.10 p.m. Cock came and fed young one with a quantity of worms, cleaned nest, carrying away the dropping, instead of swallowing it as usual. This they have done several times lately. 3.13 p.m. Cock came, fed young, picked up a small piece of dirt on the side of nest, and flew away with it.

3.15 p.m.

3.18 p.m.

3.30 p.m.

flew away.

Hen came, looked at young, and flew away.
Cock came, fed young, and flew away.

Hen came, fed young one with ivy berries, and

I had now to leave.

6.0 p.m. The young bird was still quiet in the nest.

April 19. Early this morning the young bird was sitting on a branch about four yards above the nest; the cock came and fed it with ivy berries. The young one spends much time in cleaning itself and stretching its wings.

11.10 a.m. Young bird still in the same place. Cock fed it with worms, and induced it by persuasive movements of the head to hop to another branch. He then went to the nest and picked out a dropping and carried it away.

11.15 a.m. Cock came, fed young with worms, stayed close to it, seemingly talking a little, then flew away. In about a minute the young one flew away to a large evergreen about 30 yards off; there the cock sat close to it for a little time and then flew away.

12.34 p.m. Cock fed young and flew away. This was repeated at 12.37, 12.52, 12.55, 12.58, and 1.0 p.m. On the two last occasions the food consisted of worms.

3.0 p.m. Young bird still in evergreen, cock still feeding it.

Here I had to leave for the rest of the afternoon.

April 20 and onwards. After this the young birds remained about in the garden, the old ones feeding them.

May 8. The first part of the time after the young had flown they stayed in the trees and shrubs, but now they are beginning

to come down on to the lawn; they seem, however, to have some difficulty in starting to fly from the ground. They and their parents are very noisy all day long in the garden, but they never go far off, only into the nearest parts of the fields, and that not much.

The sharpness of sight in animals, is most remarkable. near and distant objects-a magpie or anything else that they do not like in a bush or tree 50 yards off, or the closing of a photographic shutter four yards off, inside the window of the room from which I watched them. This made it very difficult to get satisfactory photographs of them on or near the nest. They did not seem to mind my watching them, and they evidently saw me, as they would watch all my movements, and even generally take my opening and shutting the window quite calmly, especially the cock; but, though we did all we could to hide the camera, keeping the window almost closed and the india-rubber tube attached to the instantaneous shutter under the window sill and behind the curtain, the moment the shutter of the camera moved

the old birds, as in other wild They are equally quick at seeing

the hen was gone. We wanted very much to photograph the two old birds sitting one on each side of the nest, the cock feeding the young, as they occasionally did, but this we never succeeded in doing, though we managed to get several good ones showing only one of the birds.

On the Form and Probable History of Saxon Church Architecture.

By W. MILES BARNES.

(Read Feb. 25th, 1902.)

THE HE visit of the club last year to Britford Church, the interest shown by members in the small Saxon arches on either side at the east end of the nave, the enquiries as to the purpose for which these arches were originally constructed, and the mystery which seems to surround the origin of Saxon architecture and the plan of early Saxon churches, will excuse the endeavour to trace that history to its sources, and to show from examples of early churches elsewhere what was the original plan of such churches as that at Britford, and the purposes for which the side chambers were used.

In tracing the history of Saxon architecture, I shall have to go over much of the same ground as for the chapter on "The origin of Saxon architecture," which I contributed to "The Cathedral