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rock. The three eggs were fresh, one of them being a de- 

 cided runt. 



T-he varying ages of the young — none of which were vet 

 feathered — and the fresh eggs in a nest which showed no signs 

 of having been a victim of the pilfering Crows, both point to 



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the conclusion that there must be a great deal of individual 

 variation in the time of nesting of these birds. It is true that 

 nests containing fresh eggs may represent a second set after 

 the loss of the first one, but the fact that none of the young 



