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ROUGH NESTING NOTES FROM YORKSHIRE.
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to is that no hard and fast rule can be laid down, for while many birds—Thrushes, Blackbirds, Chaffinches, &c.—generally lay between the hours of ten and twelve a.m., a Reed Warbler I had under observation laid all its eggs before six a.m., while a Spotted Flycatcher laid its clutch in the afternoon after three p.m.
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