running along the river-aide, apparently some what uneasy at his haunt being invaded. On inquiring of the
keeper [f he had ere* remarked the nest of the species, he stated that he well remembered a uest being found
in a bole in the bridge close to whieh we were standing, when some repairs were made nearly twenty years
previously. After pointing out an aperture where a stone was wanting, he held up the landing-net, and
immediately captured the female, who at that moment issued from her nest.
