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inn, with a couple of eggs in it. These eggs, I was 

 told, were much incubated, so no doubt the Crows 

 had been up to mischief. I expect that they had 

 " commandeered " the first attempt as well, for without 

 doubt this was a second laying, and a Curlew seldom, 

 if ever, lays less than four eggs. 



I will now recount their doings in the hills. After 



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we left them on the 2nd instant they proceeded along 

 the metals, catching the train easily at G. Immedi- 

 ately on their arrival the keeper took them to a 

 Sandpiper's nest, which they both photoed next 

 morning. They visited the Buzzard's eyrie up the 

 G. stream, finding that the birds had constructed a 

 fresh nest and laid another brace of eggs, very plain 

 ones. Further back in these pages I recorded this 



