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suspended from the extremity of the top branch 

 of an oak, was composed entirely of wool bound 

 together with dried grass, and contained three 

 eggs. Mr. Hulke, in 185 1, also recorded 

 (' Zoologist,' p. 3034) a third, of which he was 

 told that it was found about ten years pre- 

 viously in Word Wood, near Sandwich, by a 

 countryman, who took the young, and gave 

 them to his ferrets ; and Mr. More, on the 

 authority of Mr. Charles Gordon, mentions one 

 at Elmstead, adding that the bird appeared 

 again in the same locality in 1861. Mr. Howard 

 Saunders and Lord Lilford informed the editor 

 that in the summer of 1871 they each observed, 

 in Surrey and Northamptonshire respectively, 

 a bird of this species, which probably had a 

 nest. Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear speak of 

 a nest said to have been found in a garden near 

 Ormsby, in Norfolk ; but the eggs formerly in 

 Mr. Scales's collection, which it has been 

 thought were taken in that county, were really 

 brought from Holland, and the editor is not 

 aware of any collector who can boast the 



