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Some British Binds in My Aviaries. 



most disreputable. However, she had one very good point, she 

 vi^as tame and would feed from 'the hand; rather unusual with 

 such a shy species. I am glad to say that although she now 

 has her freedom in a ive,ty large aviary, she will still come when 

 called. So far they have made no attempt at nesting, prob- 



Photo W. Shore Baily. 

 Fieldfare (^ 



ably because the hen was so' badly out of condition, but I 

 hope that next year they will make up their minds to do so. 



These birds nest very late in the year in Norway. I 

 remember finding, at end of Au;gust, a nest of young ones in 

 a spruce at Fnondheim, when on a yachting cruise there some 

 some years ago. I tookl a pnoto of tlie nest, but the light 

 was not good, and the resultant picture not good enough' 

 for ''B.N." Thesei and the Hooded Crows were about the^ 

 commonest birds I ).Siaw in Norway. Some day, when I have 

 time, if our. Editor is short of copy for "B.N." I must send' 

 a few notes of some pf the birds seen on the trip> which ex- 



