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by two fine $ Skov Kyper, and finding absolutely nothing 

 but a nest of Fieldfare with five eggs after we separated. 



I did much better in the upper part of the wood. I 

 took eight nests of Fieldfares, containing respectively 4, 

 5, 4, 5, 7, 4, 4, and 2 eggs each. One or two eggs of the 

 nest of seven were about three days' incubated, the rest 

 quite fresh. Many of the nests were on old tree-stumps, 

 and most within reach of the ground. Some of the birds 

 were very bold, swooping down to within a foot or two 

 of my head. 



I found a nest with six eggs of the Kedwing. It was 

 in the low fork of a birch-tree about 2J feet or 3 feet from 

 the ground. The parent birds were both seen, and the $ 

 was seen to go to the nest and afterwards was put off it. 



I found two nests of Bramblings, one with eight eggs 

 and one with four. The former was the first nest we 

 have obtained built in an alder-tree. I shot both the 

 <? and $ of this nest. The $ bird of the eight nest 

 was very bold, perching within a yard of my head when 

 I was at the nest. These and two others without eggs 

 were in birch and alder- trees (the eight nest in an alder), 

 about 10 feet or 12 feet from the ground. The nests were 

 composed of lichens, catkins, moss, wasp-paper, lined 

 with feathers of Skov Byper and down of some plant, 

 possibly thistle, as, indeed, are most of the nests we have 

 seen. In some the thin outer bark of birch- trees is also 

 used. 



I shot also a Northern Marsh Tit and one very hand- 

 some Lesser Eedpoll. This last bird is not the same 

 species as the birds observed by me at the nest with 

 young on the 12th. These latter were, as already stated, 

 large birds, light-coloured, more robustly made, and I did 

 not discern the slightest tint of rose-colour in the breast, 

 the $ . 



We saw a couple of Skov Byper (Willow Grouse) before 



