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On tho lOtli of Miiy, 1878, I counted twelve or fourteen 
Ciirrion Crows as they flew out of one oak tree in the wood, and 
on tlie 29th I saw about twenty fly out of an oak (or ratlier a 
clump of tliree oaks standing close together). I counted seventeen 
of these Crows but could not count them all. Several which 
croaked were certainly Carrion Crows, and as I heard no Hooks I 
have no doubt they were all Carrion Crows. 
Ihe same nests seem to be often used alternately by Crows and 
Kestrels. All tho trees (except one) in Foxley Wood are oak.s. 
In some meadows outside tho ood are many very tall grey 
poplar, ash, and elm trees, and a few years ago there was a 
gigantic oak in wliich I saw three nests at once, but only one had 
it. In these meadows I once sat on a gate-post and 
counted fourteen nests, one or two were Kestrels’, tho rest were 
Carrion Crows’, but they were not all in use at tho time. 
I have reason to believe that a Carrion Crow laid five clutches 
of five and four eggs in each clutch in about ten weeks. Two of 
these later clutehes had a very small egg in each. 
I have never seen more thair five eggs in a clutch, and Carrion 
Crows frecpiently sit on only three eggs, as Kooks do also. When a 
(.-low nests on a tree in an open meadow, she generally sits so 
close that one may strike tho tree-trunk a good blow or two with a 
heavy, stick ere she will leave tho nest. 
Ihe Crows which nest in the wood are so very shy that I can 
seldom go near enough to see them fly from the nests. Tliese 
taetics arc about equally good in both cases, because, in the thick 
wood the bird can leave the nest without being seen, but in the 
open field the safety of tho nest depends upon the bird sitting as 
close as is possible. 
Carrion Crows also nest in Sparham Wood, and two or three 
other small woods near Fo.xley. 
Apamea orniOGRA,MMA. I took three specimens of this moth 
at light in a marsh at Dilham, in Korfolk, about the middle of 
August, 1879. 
Supposed occuurexce of Triph.exa subsequa in Xorfolk. 
In September, 1878, I look many specimens of the common 
Triphunia orhona (as I then thought) at sugar, in Siiarham. In 
October I spent a week in Bedfordshire sugaring for Xylina 
semihrunnea, and devoted one day to pupa-digging in Yardley Chase, 
