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Two nests of the European Magpie 
(Pica rustica) were noted. One of 
these was situated sixty feet from the 
ground in a tall popular, while the 
other was but seven feet about the 
water in a small bush on the edge of 
the lake. The latter nest was com- 
posed of large sticks placed on a 
foundation of mud and lined with root- 
1 
the 
swung far out into the lake and as an 
fainter and fainter as steamer 
ornithologist a feeling of regret came 
over me, for I had probably seen the 
last of the Valley of the Rhone and 
the Black-headed gulls for many years 
to come. P. G. HOWKS. 
No. 43 Nest of the Black-headed Gull, Rhone Valley, Switz., Apr. 4, 1910. 
Photo by Paul G. Howes. 
lets and fine grasses. It contained an 
incomplete set of three eggs, pale 
bluish-green, closely spotted and 
speckled with olive brown and under- 
laying blotches of purplish-grey. I was 
now close to Villeneuve again and ten 
minutes later I was standing on the 
‘back deck of the S. S. “Italic” bound 
for Vevey. I could hear the voices of 
the birds back in the valley, growing 
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