PLATE I 

 KESTREL. Falco tinnunculus 



May 3i5/, 1894.- -The nest from which this Plate was taken was in a small 

 wood on the side of a steep hill in the valley of the Tweed near Broughton. 



It was placed in the very top of a Scotch fir in a very thick part of 

 the wood, and had evidently once been the property of some crow. Most of 

 the woolly lining had, however, been torn out and a new one formed by the 

 refuse pellets, on which the five eggs lay. They had evidently been laid 

 some time, as the old bird sat very close, and only left the nest as I reached 

 it. The male was circling round and round above the nest at a great height 

 in the air, occasionally uttering his curious laughing cry. 



I had some difficulty in getting my camera fixed up in the neighbouring 

 tree so that I could see the eggs, as the tree the nest was in was much the 

 tallest in that part of the wood. However, after some trouble I succeeded in 

 "gg'ng up a scaffold with a couple of dead branches and some string, and 

 with much careful balancing among the thin branches I contrived to get two 

 fairly good photographs of it. 





