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Nesting of Hawfinch and Whydafi, 



having disappeared. The young one also vanished after five 

 days, and strange to say the old birds have made no fresh 

 attempt at nesting, although both birds have kept in very 

 fine condition. As far as 1 could see the hen alone incubated, 

 vvhicli she did very closely. I did not see the cock bird near 

 the nesi until the young one was hatched, when, I think, that 

 he visited it to feed the hen, but as the little one lived such 

 a short time, very little observation as to this was possible. 



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I hoj^e that another year they may be more successful. When 

 I first started bird keeping in 1909, I b'oug'ht a so-called pair 



