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deserted nest. It is strange that here the Cuckoo never uses the 

 Eeed-Warbler's nest. During the last three seasons we have examined 

 upwards of thirty nests of this bird, but not one has been used by the 

 Cuckoo. In one district in Norfolk a friend told me that he used to 

 find on an average one Cuckoo's egg in every three nests of the Keed- 

 Warbler. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Kectory, Bury St. Edmunds, 

 Suffolk). 



Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire. — I have in preparation, and almost 

 ready for publication, a Vertebrate Fauna of the County of Cheshire 

 and the sea area of Liverpool Bay. I should be greatly obliged if 

 any reader of ' The Zoologist ' who has notes on the mammals, birds, 

 reptiles and batrachians, or fishes of this area, which might suitably 

 be incorporated in the work, would communicate with me. — T. A. 

 Cowaed (Brentwood, Bowdon, Cheshire). 



