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tions, the holes and crevices not offering facilities 

 for the huge pile of materials that a Jackdaw seldom 

 fails to accumulate wherever possible. Few of 

 the nests are accessible to man. There is another 

 colony (decreasing) of Jackdaws across the bay at 

 Daddy Hole, below the Coastguard Station, and 

 here the nests are more easily reached. We have 

 seen boys get their caps full of eggs on these cliffs 

 by the most ordinary methods of climbing. But 

 by far the nost interesting colony in Tor Bay, in 

 our opinion, is that on the cliffs near Saltern Cove, 

 at Broad Sands. The rocks here rise from the 

 beach for some distance like a wall, but above 

 this they are clothed with a dense thicket of thorns, 

 clematis, briars, ivy, and other plants. This under- 

 wood also harbours many rabbits. There is a large 

 hole or cave at the foot of these cliffs hollowed out 

 in some very pretty crystallised rock. There are 

 generally a few Jackdaws' nests built in the roof of 

 this cave ; many others are made in the holes of 

 the cliffs above ; but, most interesting of all, num- 

 bers are literally in the open air, placed under the 

 dense growth of vegetation and amongst the ivy. It 

 may be worthy of remark that Missel Thrushes not 

 unfrequently nest in this thicket Many nests of 



