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which tlio tim' (h)\\ii-('l;i(l ci-oaturcs havo struggled. 

 The illustration on p. 1!)1 shows a Kestrel's eggs in 

 a Raven's old nest whicli had been half top})led over 

 by a heavy fall of snow the previous winter. Before 

 laying her eggs, the adaptor had scratched the side 

 of the structure out a little so as to create a hollow. 

 AVe have met witli several Oyster- catchers' 



OYSTER-CATCHER'S NEST 



nests, consisting of hollows scratched in nice dry, 

 soft earth, and lined — or, more strictly speaking, 

 jDaved — with empty winkle and other small shells 

 picked up on the Ijeach behjw, and in one case, in 

 the South of Ireland, with one inlaid entirely with 

 sun-dried rablnts' droppings. 



Last spring my brother, whilst staying with a 

 friend at his country house in Norfolk, was shown 

 a li(jle in a hollow tree through which a pair of 

 Jackdaws and innumerable Hone\^ ]3ees were con- 

 stantly travelling to and from their i-espective nests 



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