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sonally I do not think that it will come to anything. 

 In an oak hanging over the stream was a Crow's 

 nest of large size, containing five eggs, one of which 

 was addle. The Kite always used to breed here 

 some years ago, but does so no longer, I regret to 

 say. The scenery is simply lovely here, and it was 

 with reluctance that we wended our way homewards. 

 Coming down by the D. rocks we were fairly spell- 

 bound and delighted to see a Fork-tailed Kite ; we 

 had a grand view of him as he circled above us for a 

 short while and then, gliding over the crest of R. hill, 

 was lost in the horizon. As it had allowed of so 

 near an approach, we thought that a clump of trees 

 on our left might contain the nest, especially as it 

 used formerly to be a favourite breeding haunt of this 

 species ; but though we examined several large nests 

 there, we fell in with no luck, so we came to the con- 

 clusion that a dead sheep lying there had attracted 

 his Kiteship. The keeper thinks that he saw a Kite 

 just here about a fortnight ago. I should add that 

 we found a Ring Ouzel's nest in a dingle close to the 

 Snipe bog mentioned, containing a couple of eggs. 



May yth. — Started up the river G. At the Stallion's 

 Pool we found the usual Dipper's nest, and I noticed 

 that the nest they had last year is in use again. It 

 contained four eggs. Further up stream, on a ledge 

 of the bank, found a Ring Ouzel's home with four 

 exceptionally marked eggs in it, whilst we were 

 searching for a Grey Wagtail's home. 



We lunched in a dingle, where a pair of Buzzards 

 nested a few years ago, and here found another Ring 

 Ouzel's nest with four eggs and a Ring Dove's, built 



