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SOME NOTES ON THE BREEDING-HABITS 



OF NIGHTINGALES. 



BY 



N. F. TICEHURST, m.a., m.b.o.u. 



There must be but few of our ordiricaiy British nesting 

 birds that have hitherto evaded the efforts of the 

 photographer. 



NIGHTINGALE'S NEST IN GARLIC AND NETTLES. 



{Photographed by N. F. Ticehui-st.) 



Beautiful pictures of some species, as for instance 

 the Terns and several of the Warblers, have been 

 published many times over, but the Nightingale, favourite 

 though it is, would appear to be one of the less-frequent 

 subjects of the naturalist-photographer. Indeed, I can 



