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On the next day I I3ut up the two young- birds from the 

 pit itself, one of them rising, as I to]3l3ed the bank, from 

 the actual nest, and since then I have heard that they were 

 constantly there, the last occasion being on June 15th. 

 There cannot, I think, therefore, be any reasonable doubt 

 that they are the two young that were reared in it this 

 year. 



1 have looked up every available account of the Heron's 



'Nest of Common Heron (Ardea ciiterea L). 

 Dungeness, Kent, 27th May, 1907. 



nesting habits in this country, but have failed to find an 

 exactly parallel case, at any rate of late years. 



A number of abnormal nesting sites are of course well 

 known. In the north of Scotland where tall trees are not 

 available they are known to nest in quite low bushes,^ and 



* In tliis connection we received a short time back a letter from 

 Mr. G. Edelstcn, describing some Herons' nests in Sisye built in stunted 

 birch trees, and only about five feet from the ground. All the trees in the 

 neighbourhood were small, and the ground was not precipitous, the nests 

 being easily approachable. — Eds. 



