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appear to miss tliem, but has been sitting all day. I may fairly 
hope to see young Eedwings for the first time in my life ; that is, 
if the frequent visits of others equally curious with myself do not 
frighten the bird from the spot. 
669. {May 15.) — The Eedwing continues to sit steadily. The 
eggs which I took very much resemble those of a Blackbird, but are 
rather smaller. In colour they are pale greenish blue, minutely 
speckled with several shades of orange brown and reddish grey. 
685. {May 16.) — The Eedwing is still sitting, but has become 
so shy that she quits the nest when any person passes it, although 
the leaves completely screen it from observation. 
713. {May 17.) — The Eedwing’ s eggs are quite cold. I have 
seen the bird to-day. I think there can be little doubt that she 
has forsaken. 
730. {May 18.) — The Eedwing’s eggs have been quite cold all 
day. 
929. {June 5.) — Eeeling sure that the Eedwings will never 
return to their nest, I have at last taken it out of the tree. (Then 
follows a minute description of the nest.) 
c. Carrion Crow. 
673. {May 15.) — This morning, after having taken the Ducks’ 
eggs, I happened to leave them upon the grass for a few minutes, 
and on my return was just in time to see an old Crow, with one of 
them in its claws, making off to the nest by the old ruined house 
on the other side of the river. Crows do not invariably carry eggs 
in their feet. I have seen one feasting upon a hen’s egg, and upon 
my approach fly off with it upon its bill. 
d. Cuckoo. 
June 8, Friday. — Changeable. 
952. About four o’clock this afternoon, Gordon came in great 
haste to inform me that he had just driven from a Meadow Pipit’s 
nest a Cuckoo, which had turned out an egg and two newly-hatched 
young birds, one egg only remaining undisturbed. Upon accom- 
panying him to the spot, I was not a little astonished to find a 
Cuckoo’s egg also in the nest. As Gordon could not have been absent 
more than two or three minutes at the very outside, we of course 
