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§ 306. Two.—Yendsjssei, Jutland, 17 May, 1858. From 

 Pastor Theobald's Collection, 1859. 



These eggs were taken by Herr Fischer as above, in the wood 

 Paihede. 



§ 307. 0^^.— Mylenberg, Jutland, April, 1859. Prom Pastor 

 Theobald's Collection. 



[§ 308. O^e.— Holland. Prom Mr. Newcome's Collection, 



1852.] 



[§ 309. One. — North Devonshire. Prom Lord Lilford's Col- 

 lection, 1855.] 



[§ 310. 0^?e.— Lincolnshire, 17 May, 1856. " Pemale trapped." 

 Prom Mr. G. Adrian. 



The nest from wHch this egg comes was foimd by Mr, Adrian on the 14th 

 May, the same day as that on which he took the three eggs sent to Mr. 

 WoUey [§ 299]. In the hope that the bird would lay more, Mr. Adrian 

 left it, but a few hours afterwards heard that a farmer, living near the wood 

 in which the nest was, had, the day before, trapped a Kite, which was sub- 

 sequently sent to him alive, and proved to be a hen bird. Three days having 

 passed, Mr. Adrian again visited the nest, and, finding it exactly as he had 

 left it, he took the egg. He had no doubt that the bird trapped belonged to 

 this nest.] 



[§ 311. r/.re^.— Lincolnshire, 6 May, 1857. Prom Mr. G. 

 Adrian.] 



[§ 312. 0;^e.— Lincolnshire, 8 May, 1857. Prom Mr. G. 

 Adrian. 



With respect to this egg and those in the last section, Mr. Adrian wrote 

 that he " noticed nothing peculiar. The materials of the nests consisted of 

 decayed branches of oak ; and they were built upon the larger boughs of that 

 tree, at a height of about twenty-fom- or twenty-five feet ; the tree m neither 

 instance of very large dimensions."] 



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