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city of Oxford — hardly the place where one would naturally 

 expect to meet with it — and other instances are on record of its 

 turning up in unlikely places. 



It is satisfactory to know (as Mr. Forrest informs me) that the 

 Ludlow colony consists of two pairs of birds, and that one pair 

 managed to bring off their young. 



Although much reduced in numbers of late years in many 

 of its old breeding haunts in the south, I am glad to say that 

 in one locality, at any rate, it is still an exceedingly common 

 bird, and ten or fifteen pairs may be seen in a day ; but up to 

 the present the spot has remained practically unknown to egg- 

 collectors, although a few birds are annually taken for cage 

 purposes. 



