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Parish. 



Mertoun. 



Situation of 

 Rookery. 



Bemersjrde. 



In the policy 

 ground of 

 Mertoun. 



Rinds and 

 age of trees. 



Various 

 kinds of 

 trees, in- 

 cluding 

 ekn, 

 Scotch 

 fir, and 

 ash. 



Nenthom. 



Oldham- 

 stocks. 

 (Part in 

 Berwick- 

 shire.) 



Size of 

 Rookery. 



Name and 

 Address of 

 Reporter. 



Remaeks. 



About 200 ' John Thom- 

 nests. son, Maxton, 



St Boswells. 



Over 500 

 nests. 



Rooks do not roost 

 at Mertoun at 

 night during the 

 winter months. 

 They have in- 

 creased greatly 

 in the parish 

 during the last 

 twenty years. — 

 John Thomson, 

 Maxton. 



John Black, 

 farmer, Gir- 

 rick, Kelso. 



There are no rook- 

 eries in the 

 parish of Xen- 

 thom. About 

 ten years ago a 

 few nests were 

 btiilt on large 

 lime trees at 

 Nenthorn House, 

 but they were 

 blown down and 

 never rebuilt. 

 The Rooks have 

 greatly increased 

 in the district 

 within the last 

 twenty years. — 

 John Black, Gir- 

 rick. 



James Hardy, There are no rook- 

 Oldcambus, eries in this 

 Cockbums-i part of Oldham- 

 path. stocks parish. — 



James Hardy, 

 Oldcambus. 



Polwarth. Marchmont. 



On Spanish 

 chestnut, 

 plane, ash, 

 ehn, beech, 

 and yew. 



500 nests 

 and up- 

 wards. 



Peter Loney, The Rooks roost 

 Marchmont, at night all 



Buns. 



through the win- 

 ter at March- 

 mont. 



