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found a nest containing two Snipes' eggs, with a third lying 

 sucked at a short distance in this pit. I had for many years 

 felt convinced that Snipes occasionally bred near Lilford, but 

 this is the first positive proof of the fact that has come to my 

 knowledge. 



6th. Mr. W. J". Horn informed me that on this day he 

 observed between thirty and forty Great Crested Grebes on the 

 Kavensthorpe Eeservoir. 



8th. A considerable flock of Fieldfares reported by a 

 friend who was staying with us as seen near Thorpe fox- 

 covert. 



16th. I received a letter from one of my neighbour Lord 

 Lyveden's gamekeepers, informing me that he had seen a Wood- 

 cock at Farning Woods on the 2nd inst. This is a late date for 

 this bird in our neighbourhood ; but in spite of diligent search, 

 no eggs or young of Woodcock were discovered in our district 

 this summer. I received a letter (at the kind suggestion of 

 Dr. Albert Gunther) from Mr. C. Hampden Wigram, who was 

 good enough to inform me that, on the 2nd inst., he had clearly 

 identified a Kite at a very short distance from a train on the 

 Great Northern Kailway, close to Holme Station. Holme is not 

 in our county, though very near to its confines, but my principal 

 reason for recording this occurrence is that the great woods in 

 that district were famous for the numbers of Kites that frequented 

 them up till about 1846. 



18th. A nest of Long-tailed Titmouse was found in what, in 

 my experience, is an unusual locality— the bough of an old oak, 

 at about fifteen feet from the ground. Another nest of this 

 species discovered, about this time, was built at not more than 

 about a yard from the ground in a thick box-bush close to a path 

 in one of our home-coverts. 



20th. A nest of Barred Woodpecker, containing five eggs, 

 was found in an old whitethorn on our pleasure-grounds at 

 Lilford. I mention this, as, although this Woodpecker is 

 abundant with us, we have very seldom hitherto succeeded in 

 finding its nest. We have at least seven occupied nests of Haw- 

 finches in what 1 may call our " curtilage" at Lilford, where till 

 this autumn I had never known of more than two or three in 

 any one season. 



