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pairs near Leap, and he quotes Mr. Rake as reporting a 
pair from Hale, on the northern border of the Forest, in 
April, 1858. 
Mr. Hart's specimens are dated August, September 
and October ; he mentions Stanpit Marsh as a favourite 
resort in summer, but has met with it at most seasons 
of the year. Mr. Corbin mentions May, June and July. 
Lastly, to return to the Island, More considers the 
autumn the most usual time of its occurrence, but adds 
that a few stray birds have been known to spend the 
winter there. 
We give the following extract from Yarrell ^ quoting 
from the Proc. Zool. Society for 1863, by way of informa- 
tion as to the unusual places chosen by this bird in which to 
lay its eggs: — "It appears that the first published intimation 
of the selection of trees as breeding places was given in 
' Naumannia ' for 185 1 and 1852; and soon afterwards 
Herr Wiese narrated in the * Journal fur Ornithologie,' 
1^555 P- SHj how, having been told of this by an old 
sportsman, he took a clutch of four eggs himself from 
a simple bed of moss high up in the fork of a pine-tree 
in the district of Coslin, Pomerania, where he afterwards 
found others. Subsequently, Forester Hinz communicated 
('Journal fiir Ornithologie,' 1862, p. 460) ample details 
respecting the nidification of this species as observed 
by him in Pomerania since the year 18 18. The eggs, 
which have been found as early as the i6th of April, were 
frequently placed on old nests of the song-thrush, jay, 
blackbird, missel-thrush, wood pigeon ; once on that of 
the red-backed shrike ; often in squirrels' dreys ; sometimes 
on the ground ; on the moss on old stumps with only 
' " History of British Birds." Fourth Edition. Vol. iii. , p. 460. 
