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Rh Bow Church spire. Mr. Harting, in his 'Birds of Middlesex,' states that in 1845 there were two nests in this tree. I have no record of this circumstance. The same author states that, in 1838, a pair of Rooks made their nest on the crown which surmounted the vane of St. Olave's Church, Crutched Friars.

I know of no Rookeries further East in London,—that is, "London proper,"—for we must exclude the outlying districts from our limits.

on a visit to the Færoe Islands in 1872, I heard that an uncommon bird had been killed more than a year previously in the neighbourhood of Porkere, in the island of Suderoe. After talking the matter over with Herr H.C. Müller in Thorshavn, he gave his opinion that the description which had reached him of