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BRITISH BIRDS. 



confines of the county, and we have great satisfaction in 

 recording- that the two first named were successful in 

 rearing their young. 



The breeding of the Hen-Harrier is undoubtedly to be 

 regarded as the most important event ; this bird unfor- 

 tunately being, at the present time, almost entirely 



Fig. 1. 



-Nest of Hen-Harrier photographed in Surrey, 

 Jime, 1907, by C. H. Bentham. 



restricted, as a nesting species, to a few of the wildest and 

 most extensive moorland districts, and it is therefore 

 somewhat remarkable that a pair should have been 

 successful in bringing off their young, in a comparatively 

 populated neighbourhood within fifty miles of the 



