. British birds. Birds. VOL. NESTLNG HABITS OF MERLIN. 203 her alarm-notes continually. We soon spotted two fully fledged young perched on the top of a dune, and later came across two more. Altogether we saw that day the two adult birds and four young, the latter strong on the wing. Nearly all the sand-hills in the vicinity of the nest bore on their summits some remains of the youngsters' meals. One in particular had four nearly fresh victims upon it, one headless but otherwise untouched, and quite fresh, another half eaten, another disembowelled and split. The remains were mostly. merl
. British birds. Birds. VOL. NESTLNG HABITS OF MERLIN. 203 her alarm-notes continually. We soon spotted two fully fledged young perched on the top of a dune, and later came across two more. Altogether we saw that day the two adult birds and four young, the latter strong on the wing. Nearly all the sand-hills in the vicinity of the nest bore on their summits some remains of the youngsters' meals. One in particular had four nearly fresh victims upon it, one headless but otherwise untouched, and quite fresh, another half eaten, another disembowelled and split. The remains were mostly. merlin: locality " ; June ist, 1913. Nest on summit of sand-hill in foreground. (Photographed by C. C. 5. Ingram.) of young fledged Starlings {Siurnus v. vulgaris) and a Green- finch {Chloris c. chloris) was also recognizable. In June 1919 I found a pair nesting in a new locality, besides finding the usual nest at the old spot. These localities will henceforth be referred to as " A " and " B," " A " being the old site. " B " was some six miles away from " A " and in exactly similar country, sand-hills bordering the seashore and rising in some cases to well over fifty feet in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Witherby & Co
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