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of a Linnet containing two Cuckoo's eggs and one egg of the dupe, 

 while recently, when in Monsaldale, in Derbyshire, a person told me 

 he had found the egg of a Cuckoo in the nest of a Thrush. — E. P. 

 Butterpield (Wilsden). 



PISCES. 



A Monster Pike. — On the 16th May last, when Salmon-fishing on 

 Lough Conn, Co. Mayo, Mr. Charles Scroope, of Ballina, captured a 

 monster Pike, weighing thirty-five pounds, on an artificial minnow. 

 Its dimensions were : Length, 47 in. ; girth, 24J in. ; length of head, 

 13 in. ; and spread of tail, 11 in. It was in splendid condition, and 

 I never saw a fish of such depth of body. The Pike was taken on 

 the Salmon run in about five feet of water. It was weighed and 

 measured immediately on being brought ashore in the presence of 

 four credible witnesses, so there is no mistake as to its weight or 

 dimensions. — Kobert Warren (Moy View, Ballina). 



