The NesHvff of the. Grey Finch . 
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The youiif? ones liad scarcely grown at all when they 
were a week old. ()ii(> of them was extremely weak, and ap- 
peared to be very little larger than when first hatched, and I 
lost all hope of rearing tliem when' T saw the old birds flying 
direct from the millet-tray to feed them. 
On July 8tli, the weak one died at the age of twelve 
days; the remaining one, however, had made rapid progress, 
and appeared to be fully feathered. 
About this time, I saw the old birds eating gentles 
for the first time. 
The young one came out of the nest at 7 o'clock in 
the evening of July 11th. It was only just able to flutter 
to the ground, and the old birds had a great deal of trouble to 
entice it to perch on the lower branches of a bush, before' 
darkness came on. The following morning the young one 
was perched on the top of a privet hedge, and looked quite 
" perky." Its parents were greatly excited, and were most 
attentive to it. 
A few days later the cock was killed by a Thrush, but 
the her continued to feed the young one, until it was almost 
two months old. 
On October 17th I found the young one dead; it had 
probably been killed by some other bird, as earlier in the 
day it was in the best of health and spirits. 
This bird was undoubtedly a male. It sang almost 
incessantly for the last few weeks of its life, but although' it 
was IC weeks old at the time of its death, it so closely re- 
sembled the old female that the latter could only be distingu- 
ished by a small celluloid ring on her foot. 
♦ 
British Corvidae. 
By Frank Dawson-Smith. 
( Continued from pane 42). 
The Carrion Crow {Curvus cot-one). Having fully dis- 
cussed in a former article the finest member of this family, I 
will now proceed to the consideration of the Raven's smaller 
relation— the Carrion Crow. This bird is to all intents and 
purposes a miniature Eaven, both in colour and habits. It is 
a bird of somewhat solitary state, and does not nest in com- 
