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seemed to be quite lost, and only flew from tree to tree. A Grey 
Crow was seen on 19th.”—R. C. 
April 23rd. “A nest of Little Owl found in a hollow bough 
of old ash-tree in the park; the finder lifted the old bird, who 
would not leave the nest, and could make out one egg.” —S. J. 
I am glad to say that these Little Owls (a pair of many set at 
liberty here in July, 1888) succeeded in hatching out and rearing 
four young birds, which left their nursery about June 10th. 
I have good reason to believe that one, if not two, other broods of 
this species, Athene noctua, were successfully reared in the 
neighbourhood of Lilford during this summer. 
April 25th. “I regret very much to find that this morning 
the Eagles have left their nest, and have left nothing but a few 
broken pieces of egg-shell. I have no doubt that they have 
eaten the eggs.”—R. C. 
April 26th. Miss M. K. Stopford informed me in a letter 
bearing this date, that on the previous day she and her father 
saw a very large bird, which they are convinced was an Hagle, 
flying steadily northwards over Tichmarsh at a very great height. 
April 29th. “I saw a Fieldfare on 27th, and found the first 
Pheasant’s nest, containing ten eggs on 10th; first Partridge’s 
eggs on 27th.”—D. M. 
May 3rd. “I have seen two broods of Wild Ducks in the 
meadows, and know of two nests of eggs still unhatched. I saw 
two of the Common (?) Sea-gull on April 27th, and three of the 
grey Gulls (probably ZL. argentatus, immature) on 380th; three 
Sea Swallows on May Ist and a Coot on 2nd.’—R. 8S. 
May 6th. Under this date Mr. W. Tomalin, of Northampton, 
wrote to me as follows:—‘“I went to Spratton this morning to 
inspect the Snipe’s nest reported to me as having been found 
there on 8rd inst. The finder took me to the spot, and I saw 
the bird sitting on the nest; when we were about seven yards 
from it she flew away and pitched about forty yards off. The 
nest contained four eggs; I did not touch it or them: it was 
partially concealed by some rushes, and appeared to be lined with 
dry bents. There are cattle and sheep in the field; the nest is 
on rising ground about twenty yards from a snipe-bog which in 
the driest weather would be over one’s knees in mud.” I have 
recorded the above particulars because they are the only details 
