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§ 2716. O;?^.— Not later than 1842. 



Sold to me at Eton as the egg of a " very curous and heautiful 

 bird that built on the ground.'^ It is of the variety figured by 

 Mr. Hewitson in his first edition [Br. Ool. pi. xci. fig. 3 (1835)]. 



§ 2717. One. — Clifton, Nottinghamshire. 

 This may be considered the type of a Carrion-Crow's egg. 



§ 2718. 7V-0.— Dalgety, Fife, 27 April, 1850. 



Taken by myself in a fir-tree in the wood where the heronry is. 

 Many robbed Herons^ and Pheasants' eggs lying about. 



[^ 2719. 0;ze.— Elveden, 1845.] 



[§ 2720. One. — Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, 1846. From 

 Mr. F. Tharpe.] 



[§ 2721. Oyee.— Soham, Cambridgeshire, 1846. From Mr. H. 

 Dobede.] 



[§ 2722. One. — Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1852. From 

 Mr. Charles ThurnalL] 



§ 2723. i^o^^r.— Whittlesford, 1852. From Mr. Charles Thur- 

 nalL] 



[§ 2724. 0;?^.— Milton, Cambridgeshire, May, 1856. 



Taken by my brother Edward.] 



[§ 2725. Owe.— Sutherland, 1859. 



From a coiTespondent who wrote that in his district the " Carrion-Crows 

 are quite common," and further on said that the nest was in a tree.] 



