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wary bird should at times choose the lowly hedge-row, or soli- 

 tary thorn bush, for its place of nidification, when in the same 

 hedge-row are trees which to all appearance would afford it 

 better protection against the prying urchin, or destructive 

 gamekeeper, or wandering naturalist, is a question which in 

 my opinion is not likely to be soon solved. I have found its 

 nest in very solitary thorn-bushes, and not more than ten or 

 twelve feet from the ground. Circumstances like these have 

 given careless observers an idea that we have t\vo kinds of 

 Magpies, the Tree Mag, and the Hedge Mag. It builds occa- 

 sionally not only close to the cottage door, but even in the 

 midst of towns. In 1820, I saw in the middle of Lough- 

 borough a magpie's nest on a very tall elm, in a gentleman's 

 garden ; but this nest was not renewed in 1821. The Magpie 

 makes use of the old materials in building her nest, as I have 

 ascertained beyond dispute. In a spruce-fir tree, Pinus Abies, 

 growing at Thorpe Cottage, in this county, I have known a 

 magpie's nest having been made since 1814, year after year; 

 and there is at this moment (1839) a nest in the same tree 

 which the magpies used last spring. I shall not attempt to 

 prove that the same pair have tenanted the nest all along, but 

 it is reasonable to suppose that some members of the same 

 family have." 



Another correspondent, Mr R. D. Duncan, informs me of a 

 Magpie's nest which " was fixed amongst the top branches of a 

 hawthorn bush by the side of the northern road between Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow. This presents us with a new trait in the 

 character of the INIagpie, as it exhibits a boldness not often 

 used by it." 



GARRULUS GLANDARIUS. THE BLUE-WINGED JAY. 

 Vol. I, p. 576. 



The Jay occurs here and there in the -woods skirting the 

 Grampians from Forfarshire to Dumbartonshire, and in all the 

 more or less wooded districts to the southward. Mr Harley 

 informs me that it is found at all seasons in the hedge-rows, 



