Chapter C: H. Cooper

_Redwing's Nest_ (Vol. iii., p. 408.).--I think that upon further consideration C. J. A. will find his egg to be merely that of a blackbird. While the eggs of some birds are so constant in their markings that to see one is to know all, others--at the head of which we may place the sparrow, the gull tribe, the thrush, and the blackbird--are as remarkable for the curious variety of their markings, and even of the shades of their colouring. And every schoolboy's collection will show that these distinctions will occur in the same nest.

I also believe that there has been some mistake about the nest, for though, like the thrush, the blackbird coats the interior of its nest with mud, &c., it does not, like that bird, leave this coating exposed, but adds another lining of soft dried grass.

SELEUCUS.

_Champak_ (Vol. iii., p. 84.).--A correspondent, C. P. PH***., asks "What is Champak?" He will find a full description of the plant in Sir William Jones's "Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants," vol. v. pp. 128-30. _Works_, ed. 1807. In speaking of it, he says:

"The strong aromatic scent of the gold-coloured Champac is thought
offensive to the bees, who are never seen on its blossoms; but
their elegant appearance on the black hair of the Indian women is
mentioned by Rumphius; and both facts have supplied the Sanscrit
poets with elegant allusions."

D. C.

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