96 BRITISH BIRDS’ UGGS. 
Mr. Harting informs me that in March, 1864, a pair of 
tame Ravens which had the run of a garden belonging to 
Mr. Winterbottom, of Cheltenham, built a nest in a box in 
a shed about six feet from the ground. The nest was 
built of sticks, old fern-leaves, and the stalks of dead 
wallflowers, and was lined with dead leaves and tufts of 
grass. On March 4th two eggs were found in the nest, and 
the following day a third was laid; but the hen bird did 
not sit well, perhaps because too much disturbed by visitors, 
and the eggs were not hatched. 
During the last winter (1885-6) I, on three occasions, 
saw a Raven fly over or close by my Surrey garden. I am 
informed by a friend that in the spring of 1885 a pair 
nested in the neighbourhood. 
