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Title: Twenty-five photographs (printed in platinotype)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Webster, G. Watmough Newstead, Robert, 1859-1947 Grosvenor Museum (Chester, Cheshire)
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: Chester: (Grosvenor Museum)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The Kestrel (F. hnnunculusJ. A NEST OF THREE YOUNG ONES IN THE DOWN,carefully modelled from Life. (TpHIS group has been acknowledged by experts to be one of the finest piecesof the Taxidermists art in Europe. Taken at Oakrnere, Cheshire, and presented by Mr. A. O. Walker, F.L-S.
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/ Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) LlNN^US. MALE, FEMALE, NEST AND EGGS. (JT^HE male of this species is much smaller than the female, although it doesnot appear so when flying. The former is carrying a small bird in itstalons, the female waiting at the edge of the nest to receive it. The birds are theactual parents of the nest and eggs. They were collected on the Eaton Estate,and presented by His Grace the Duke of Westminster, K.G. The nest in situ in a branch of Scotch fir, is of considerable interest, beingdecorated externally with down from the parent birds. When freshly cut fromthe tree the branches were covered in parts with the white cottony material secretedby the Pine Aphis (Chemes pint, Koch J. So striking was the resemblance betweenthe white patches of down on the nest and the cottony material on the firbranches, that it seemed as if the nest had been intentionally decorated to simulatethe natural surroundings.

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