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and from six eggs, and found a nest with five young, while in a single 
hedge in Jutland a friend and myself found, on the 11th June, nests 
from which we flushed the birds containing respectively seven and 
four eggs, and seven callow young. This was in North Jutland, 
latitude about 562°, whereas Christiania is in latitude 60°, Surrey 
51}°, and Wiesbaden 50°. The evidence in this case is therefore 
very inconclusive. 
A friend tells me he has once (or twice?) found five eggs in the 
Curlew’s nest in England. 
Since writing the above I have come upon the following 
remarks by Mr. Meade Waldo in the ‘Ibis’ for 1889, which it 
may be of interest to quote :— 
‘Iam much struck by the small number of eggs laid by many 
birds here’ (Teneriffe). ‘I have never seen more than three eggs 
in a Blackbird’s nest, very often only two, and frequently one. 
Phylloscopus rufus (Chiffchaff) lays four eggs, occasionally five, often 
only three ; the Robin generally three, often only two, occasionally 
four or five. The egg of the Robin is very richly marked and large, 
and is as different from the egg of our Robin as the bird itself is. 
The Gold-crests (Regulus cristatus) lay but five eggs, often only 
four; the iy is exactly like our bird’s, but I often find a double- 
yolked on 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
A type collection of British Coleoptera is being —— for the ——— at 
Bolton-le-Moors by Mr. C. E. Stott, of Manchest sateen on, Lancashire, who 
will be glad to receive assistance from willing coleopteris 
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It gives us the greatest 5 Sep to announce that our valued friend and 
Contributor, the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A., is issuing prospectuses of a new” 
district, by R. S. Ferguson, F.S.A. Mr. Macpherson aims at supplying as 
complete an esgperng: of the vertebrate animals of Lakeland as our present state of 
knowledge r s possible. The materials he has brought together during the 
labours of tig oa rs embody much fresh information. While his first endeavour 
been to make a jeoenibetion of real scientific value to British zoology, as 
not neglected such records or aac of a more popular nature as may attract 
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hag é sportsman an 
will pts te iographical eaities of the chief Lakeland naturalists, an account of 
Ca’ and other Pleistocene remains, a ean of the earliest local museums, 
variations of colour observ 
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be 21s., and as soon as a sufficient number of names have received by the 
author to warrant its a the printing will be n, an 
David as, whose series of D cairns Faunas of 
Messrs. arvie-Rewwe and Buckley, this volume on Lakeland is apparently to 
be uniform, or at any rate similar. = price io th he mained as s000 as the 
subscription list is closed. 
Dec. 1853. 
