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spotted eggs. Ou July 30tli, however, Davies and I took a 

 nest on a big jheel containing three fresh eggs of a dullish 

 yellow-green, faintly but distinctly stippled and speckled 

 with dull light brown. Only two of the eggs were thus 

 marked, the other being practically normal. I am curious 

 to know whether any one else has come across eggs of this 

 genus marked in any way. The eggs of this bird frequently 

 perish from lying so much in water, in spite of the great 

 gloss, which one would think would protect them. 



Ardea cinerea. Common Heron. 



Hind. \_Lucknow] : Chanak. 



On July 17th, in a perfect deluge of rain, I got two nests 

 containing 4 (set) and 2 (fresh) eggs respectively. The nests 

 were in a high pipal-tree, and beside them a pair of the 

 Large White Egrets [A. alba) had a nest ; but, owing to the 

 rain, we could not get the men to climb the slippery branch 

 on which it was placed. 



Nettapus coromandelianus. Cotton-Teal. 



Hind. [Lucknow] : Ghirria. 



On July 30th Davies and I found a nest containing four 

 broken and two whole fresh eggs. The two birds kept flying 

 to and fro, uttering their cry of " Fix bayonets \" and it was 

 by the female going to look at her treasures that I found 

 them. The nest was a collection of bents and grass at the 

 bottom of a great hole in a pipal-tree, just a little deeper 

 than my arm could reach, and about 15 feet from the 

 ffround. 



XXVIII. — On some Bemains of Birds from the Lake- dwellings 

 of Glastonbury, Somersetshire. By C. W. Andrews, B.Sc, 

 F.Z.S. 



In 1892 Mr. Arthur Bulleid of Glastonbury discovered in 

 the neighbourhood of that town the remains of an ancient 

 lake-village, at that time only recognizable as a series of 

 nearly obliterated mounds marking the sites of the houses. 



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