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Awe, called Innis Fraoch [Heather Isle], on which are some ruins. 

 One of the trees grows in a remarkable manner on the top of a wall, 

 and in this, in one lump, were seven nests. Some of the eggs were 

 already hatched, and others fresh-laid, there being only two or three 

 eggs in the nest. The highest nests, and those in the best places, 

 had the eggs most advanced — all of the nests lined with moss. The 

 trees were ashes, Scotch firs, and so forth. Many Jackdaws were 

 about the ruins, and also about Kilchurn Ca*stle ; but several of their 

 nests that we examined were as yet without eggs. Lesser Black- 

 backed Gulls also flew about a neighbouring island ; many Ducks 

 were about, and on an adjacent island I flushed two Woodcocks, and 

 on the one with the ruins I put up a Heron. At Kilchurn Castle I 

 climbed up so as to overlook the chimney which had been pointed out 

 to me as that on which the Ospreys had their nest, until the pair were 

 shot by the gamekeeper ; but I could see no remains of the nest. 



[§ 2700. One. — Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, 1846. From 

 Mr. F. Tharpe.] 



is 2707. :7k?o.— Barnham, Suffolk, 1849.] 



\S 2708. Thirteen.— ?>^x^\\m\\ 1851.] 



\S 2709. i^/t^e.— Wangford, West Suffolk, 9 April, 1853. " A. 



& E. N." 



Out of three nests, from a small rookery in a clump of trees on the Warren.] 



[§ 2710. /S'zcz;.— Letterkenny, Donegal, 7 April, 1863. From 

 Mr. Kobert Harvey. 



This nestful was taken at the Port bridge of Letterkenny, from an ash-tree 

 in Mr. McClintock's orchard.] 



[^2711. i^o^^r.— Sparham, Norfolk, 14 April, 1871. From 

 Mr. Norgate.] 



[§ 2712. i^/y^.— Sparham, 31 March, 1876. From Mr. Nor- 

 gate.] 



