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two days old (as incubation lasts from eighteen to nineteen 

 days this does not leave much time for building and laying), 

 and on the 13th June they had yet another nest containing 

 four eggs, two-thirds incubated. A Magpie, on 30th May, 

 had a typical nest containing five eggs, built on the top of 

 the ivy-grown chimney of a deserted cottage on the moor at 

 Corsemalzie. Two pairs of Tree-sparrows bred this summer 

 at Torrance near Glasgow (i. 1919, 166), and a pair of Grey 

 Wagtails bred inside the porch at Poltalloch, Argyllshire, in 

 a Thuya-tree in a pot (i. 1919, 195). A Song-thrush bred 

 at Kergord, Weisdale, Shetland, and hatched out two young 

 (2. xiii. 159). A Hedge-sparrow at Swordale on 24th June 

 had a nest and five eggs in a roll of wire-netting which was 

 coiled and lying sideways on the ground. At Darvel, a 

 third brood of five young Swallows hatched on the 31st 

 August "This is the seventh successive year that the same 

 nest has been occupied. Last year they successfully reared 

 two broods of six each, and this season one six and the last 

 two with five each. They all got off except one of the last 

 nest, which died shortly after being hatched." On 5th June 

 a pair of Nightjars was flushed at Corsemalzie ; they were 

 sitting within a yard of each other, on a burnt patch, the 

 female on a single egg. Our recorder visited the nest daily 

 and always found the female incubating, but the second egg 

 was not laid till the 9th of June. A pair of Great Spotted 

 Woodpeckers bred at Gask, Auchterarder, in a living oak 

 the hole was made where the branch had been cut off years 

 before and several pairs bred in Lauderdale. Our corre- 

 spondent at Beith found three Meadow-pipits' nests, each 

 containing a Cuckoo's egg ; one had also five eggs of the 

 host. From the same station are recorded a Whitethroat's 

 nest with five eggs and a Cuckoo's, and a Willow-warbler's 

 nest with one egg of the Warbler and one of the Cuckoo : 

 this last nest was forsaken. At Low Ouhillart, Corsemalzie, 

 on 27th May a Cuckoo's egg was found in a fresh empty 

 nest of a Whitethroat ; the birds deserted at once. Perhaps 

 the most extraordinary nest in which a Cuckoo's egg was 

 found in 1919 was that of the Common Sandpiper. On 

 28th Ma\' b)- the Watch, a tributary of the D)'e, a Sand- 



