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Yesterday evening when it was cleaned, a perfect starling’s nest, with 
two eggs in, was removed. This the birds must have built and finished - 
since Friday night. I was sorry to be obliged to interfere with the 
domestic arrangements of so industrious and determined a couple. 
J. W. CLINCH. 
LAKE BREWERY, DoveLas, Muy 9th, 1905. 
P.S.—10th May 1905.—Hot steam passed through the pipe until four 
p.M. yesterday, but between daybreak and six a.m. to-day, another (5th) 
nest had been begun, and had to be removed. 
PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS. CHOUGH. 
The interest attaching to the discovery of inland and artificial 
nesting-places of the Chough led me during the early summer of 
1905 to visit the localities mentioned on page 90. At the former — 
of these sites, remote from habitation, and with quite uncultivated 
surroundings, the ‘ wheel-case’ is close to the stream, with parallel 
walls some twenty feet high, and now commencing to crumble at 
the top. The joist-holes inside are in two rows, one low down, the 
other about five feet beneath the summit. At one end the masonry 
abuts upon the hillside, so that it is possible to get upon the walls, 
and from the top of each to look into the cavities of that opposite. 
No birds were seen at this nest (20th May), but in a hole of the 
higher row was a nest well formed of sticks (apparently gorse) 
behind a small plant of male fern which grew at the opening. In 
another hole seemed to be some slight remains. The boy who 
guided us to the spot told us that he had in different seasons seen 
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three nests in this building, the eggs on one occasion being easily 
discernible. Mr. James Kewley, who accompanied me, succeeded 
in obtaining (no easy matter, from the position in which the photo- 
grapher had to work) the opposite picture, which shows the 
nesting-hole. 
The second site is in one of the main glens of the island, a little 
dale of that character common to so many of our valleys, in which 
woods, pastures, and heathery wilds are pleasantly mingled. The 
case is close to the stream and a road, and is a larger structure 
than that just described. I had been told that the nest of this 
year was already destroyed in defiance of the law, and on arriving 
at the building (27th May), I found its lining of wool, hair, and 
