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Rests and Eggs of Local Birds (Burton-on-Crent). 
By Cuas. Hanson, JunR. 
READ BEFORE THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGICAL SECTION, 
FEBRUARY 9th, 1905. 
[ABSTRACT]. 
HE district around Burton-on-Trent, from an ornithological 
point of view, is very favourably situated, being near the 
centre of England and embracing part of a river (the Trent) which 
is one of the highways used by migratory birds; and, I think, as 
regards the number and variety of birds to be found here, would 
bear comparison with any other district. 
There is, too, a considerable diversity in surface: The slow run- 
ning Trent with its adjacent reed, rush, and osier beds, meadows, 
ditches and marshes—the haunts of water fowl, warblers, buntings, 
wagtails, plovers, snipe, &c.—the swifter running Dove with its high 
banks and gravel beds—the haunts of the kingfisher, dipper, sand 
martin, sand-piper, &c.; the numerous well-preserved parks, large 
and small woods, coverts, dingles, brook courses, endless hedgerows, 
and, a little further afield, the wilder hills of Dovedale, Cannock 
Chase, and similar places; these all contribute largely to increase 
the number of species which find a home here for some portion of 
the year. 
Within walking distance of Burton, the nests of about eighty 
different species have come under my own observation. I may men- 
tion that on Scalpcliff Hill alone, nests of the following birds have 
