• [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIM,—I4nat year, coming
from Tunis to Marseilles in the early Spring, we were delighted at dinner-time to see six swallows all in a row sitting on a bar above the saloon dining-table. They remained quiet all the evening and flew away in the morning. Did their instinct tell them we were travelling north before they took a free passage on our steamer ? Recently a partridge hatched off fifteen eggs close • by this house. I had been carefully watching this nest for ten days. On examining the nest I found six of the shell's neatly. peeked one inside the other, making a string on one side of the nest; while two doubles were fitted inside one another on the other side. The remaining eggs were broken in smaller pieces and lying around. . Is this a common practice of the old birds ?—
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