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first observed. It was killed about the middle of July.” We are informed, 
in Wise’s ‘New Forest,’ that a fine male of this species was killed some 
thirty years ago at Purewell, Christchurch, by a brother of Hart, the bird- 
stuffer there, so that this specimen was undoubtedly preserved.—G@. B. 
Corbin. 
Lining of the Crow’s Nest.—With one exception, all the crows’ nests 
I have examined have been lined with wool. I once came across one 
without any wool in whatever, but in its place was a quantity of dried flags, 
which it had obtained from the River Ouse close by—C. Matthew Prior. 
Hooded Crow nesting in East Yorkshire.—I am informed that the hooded 
crow has nested in the Flamborough cliffs this season, and that five or six 
of them were seen on the 15th of August last. A “hoodie” was killed a 
short time ago by the gamekeeper at Kilham, a village some twelve miles 
north of Beverley, but I have no particulars, except that the gentleman 
who has the shooting told me he saw the bird a week or two ago, and it 
was freshly killed.—F’. Boyes. 
Jackdaws nesting in Modern Gables——The jackdaw is so associated in 
one’s ‘mind with ecclesiastical edifices, ruined castles, and monastic 
buildings, or the scarcely less venerable trees that surround ancestral 
houses, that one seems to regard almost as a degenerate race such birds as 
content themselves, for nesting purposes, with the chance inlets of more 
modern structures. During the last two or three seasons I have watched 
with some interest the gradual increase in a colony of jackdaws, which, 
haying turned out the first tenants—the starlings—have, to the number of 
five or six pairs, established themselves in the roofs of the Esplanade 
houses at Lowestoft, on the Suffolk coast. These being situated close 
to the beach, the birds have taken care to select the west side, facing 
inland, and find a safe and snug retreat for themselves and young in 
openings between the wood- and brick-work in the angles of the orna- 
mental gables. Staying at Lowestoft this year at the beginning of April, 
I was able to watch their proceedings, day by day; and as the weather at 
the time was anything but spring-like, the progress of nest-building was 
unusually prolonged, and consequently the raids made upon each other's 
stores of nesting materials afforded constant amusement. For more than 
a fortnight they were thus employed, working only at intervals during the 
day, and some days, apparently by common consent, taking an “ outing” in 
the fields ‘‘ from morn till dewy eve”; but occasionally, on these “ excursion 
days,” a sly customer would return to its haunt, and, after a cautious 
survey, dive suddenly into the entrance of a neighbour's unest-hole, 
where, securing certain coveted sticks, it coolly conveyed them to its own. 
‘Once or twice, however, I saw the thief caught in the act, by the sudden 
return of the lawful owner, or “Jack” proved after all to be ‘at home,” 
though not seen at first in the dark recesses of the gable openings, and then 
