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the methods of our great spotted woodpecker at home. 
Two birds shot to-day struck me as peculiarly “British” 
—a rook and a short-eared owl; both, however, belong to 
slightly different species, Corvus capensis and Asio capensis. 
In the open groves were pririt fly-catchers {Batis), in 
black and white, not unlike our familiar pied fly-catchers 
in England ; also fantail warblers and those feathered 
mites no bigger than a hazel-nut, the grass - warblers 
( Prinia ); these latter, however, I am wont to leave to 
Lynes’ more expert eye, and indeed have no design to 
abuse the reader’s patience by inflicting on him a whole 
catalogue of the forest-birds . 1 
1 I take refuge in a footnote to record the fact of finding in these 
woods three nests of sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus ), each with three 
salmon-pink eggs, quite fresh, on March 8th, all three nests near together, 
and on bareish ground among thin bush. A couple of days later, found the 
two eggs of a long-tailed nightjar (Scotornis climacurus ), both parents 
