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THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. 



WREN S NEST IN CARCASE OF HOODED CROW. 



Family MOTACILLIDiE. 



White Wagtail : Motacilla alba. 



A rare straggler, chiefly in spring or summer, to the southern 

 parts of Britain. It occurs, without doubt, occasionally in Essex, 



at Rougham Hall, Suffolk, in 1885, and are npw shown with their nest in the dead body of 

 another " Hoody " in a glass case. If Tits were substituted for Wrens in the accompanying cut, 

 ,jt would exactly represent this second case. 



