17 JUNE 1893, Page 16

A TIT'S NEST AT A RAILWAY-CROSSING.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " 13TICTATOR.1 SIC.—At Hatterworth crossing, on the South-Western Railway in Hampshire, tits have built in the metal cup under the lamp for years. Three times a day the men ascend the ladder to attend to the lamp above. Trains thunder by, and carts and carriages cross the line, unheeded by the little mothers, who regularly—twice a year—rear their diminutive broods in this strange nest; and, to their credit be it said, quite unmolested by the railway men and their families.—I am, Sir, &c., A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF BIRDS.