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THE OOLOGIST 



Two nests of the European Magpie 

 (Pica rustica) were noted. One of 

 these was situated sixty feet from the 

 ground in a tall popular, while the 

 other was but seven feet about the 

 water in a small bush on the edge of 

 the lake. The latter nest was com- 

 posed of large sticks placed on a 

 foundation of mud and lined with root- 



fainter and fainter as the steamer 

 swung far out into the lake and as an 

 ornithologist a feeling of regret came 

 over me, for I had probably seen the 

 last of the Valley of the Rhone and 

 the Black-headed gulls for many years 

 to come. -P. G. HOWES. 





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No. 43 Nest of the Black-headed Gull, Rhone Valley, Switz., Apr. 4, 1310. 

 Photo bv Paul G. Howes. 



lets and fine grasses. It contained an 

 incomplete set of three eggs, pale 

 bluish-green, closely spotted and 

 speckled with olive brown and under- 

 laying blotches of purplish-grey. I was 

 now close to Villeneuve again and ten 

 minutes later I was standing on the 

 back deck of the S. S. ''Italic" bound 

 for Vevey. I could hear the voices of 

 the birds back in the valley, growing 



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