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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Shag, just beginning to moult old worn feathers, which was 

 picked up in a very thin condition in a meadow near Banbury 

 about the 1st of the month. 



25th.— Went to Kingham to see the three Marsh Warbler's 

 nests found by Mr. Fowler. A photograph of one of these nests 

 (the one in which the Cuckoo's egg was afterwards found, vide 

 ' Zoologist,' 1898, p. 356) is here reproduced. This example 



exhibits very well the peculiar characteristic (always more or less 

 developed, so far as I know) of the Marsh Warbler's nest. The 

 nest has the appearance of being hung on its supporting stems 

 by basket-like handles, somewhat similar to those of a common 

 garden scuttle-basket. This nest is supported by three stems of 

 meadow-sweet, two of them close together. The walls of the 

 nest are formed of dry grass, with a very little moss and some 

 wool. The lining consists of a fair amount of horsehair, and a 

 very little wool is to be seen, as well as a patch of the latter as 



