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now some years' experience with these birds) that I consider their 

 breeding-season as regular as that of any other bird, at the period I 

 have before staled ; and as for a domed nest, I never saw such a thing. 

 I have often wondered why nature should have neglected this provision 

 as regards the crossbill — for in the end of March, 1863 (in which year 

 I took above thirty-five nests out of our woods), when the weather was 

 very stormy and rainy, I found more than a dozen nests in which the 

 unfledged young had perished through the inclemency of the weather."] 



Whiteu'inged Crossbill. — Rare : an adult bird killed at Lariggan 

 some years since, and now in a private collection at Penzance. 



Starling. — Universally distributed in the winter months, in flocks ; 

 rare in summer. 



Rosecoloured Pastor. — Several examples have been obtained from 

 the west of Cornwall, an adult bird from Scilly, and apparently a 

 female from Gwithian, near Hayle, also from the neighbourhood of the 

 Land's End. 



Chough. — Much less common than formerly; sparingly observed in 

 diff'erent localities on the coast; breeds annually in Zennor cliffs, 



[Still common round the rock-bound coast of Pembrokeshire and 

 Cardiganshire, where they breed. — E. Newman.'\ 



Raven. — A pair may be observed in most of the ranges of our cliffs, 

 where they principally breed. 



Carrion Crow. — Generally distributed. 



Hooded Crow. — Rare : occasional visitant. Formerly abundant on 

 Marazion Green, whence it derived one of its synonyms of " Market- 

 Jew Crow." 



Rook. — Generally distributed. 



Jackdaw. — Generally distributed. 



Magpie. — Generally distributed. 



Jay. — Common in the woodland districts of the county, but in the 

 neighbourhood of Penzance and westward unknown. 



Green Woodpecker. — Very common in the eastern woodlands ; 

 very rare in west Cornwall, and almost unknown in the neighbourhood 

 of Penzance. Trevayler bottom ; Castle Horneck. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker. — Rare : sometimes seen in the eastern 

 woodlands: a specimen now and then obtained from Treneere lawn, 

 and Trevayler, near Penzance. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. — Rare : a specimen obtained from 

 North-hill. The note of this bird exactly resembles the roosting call 

 of the common blackbird. 



