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nor, as far as we can learn, has any attempt been made 
to re-introduce them. 
A pair nested in Ball's Coppice, at Old Basing, on the 
Hack wood Estate, but Mr. Raynbird writes that this was 
about fifty years ago ; two specimens now in the Alton 
Museum represent this pair. 
In Rooksbury Park, near Wickham — Mr. J. Carpenter- 
Garnier tells us — they nested in the Fir Copse until about 
forty years ago, and Mr. Knight, of Wickham, says that 
they reared a brood of four young ones there in two 
successive years, but the young were constantly taken. 
Another pair bred annually in the Tangley Clumps, 
above Hurstbourne Tarrant, — three desolate groups of 
gaunt Scotch firs, high up on the summit of a bare 
down on the north-western edge of the county, buttressed 
on the northern side by juniper-sprinkled hills ; sloping 
away to the south over a limitless expanse of wood, 
downland and pasture, the view embracing lofty Salisbury 
spire, and stretching even to the Solent ; to the west 
a stretch of country bounded by the high table-land of 
Salisbury Plain ; while on the east the naked eye can see 
far beyond the county's limits. 
In such a situation the birds nested until 1866, and 
Mr. G. Orby Sloper, who formerly lived at West Woodhay, 
tells us that they were driven away in that year, by the 
limb on which the nest was built having been sawn oft 
in order to get at the nest with the young birds. He 
often watched them chasing and taking larks, in which 
they seldom failed, and the only bird that was their equal 
was the cock peewit, which always successfully protected 
its eggs from them. 
Of this same pair, Mr. J. F. Child, of Farnborough, 
well remembers them croaking over the valley in the 
