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IN previous notes in British Birds on egg-daubing by the Jackdaw {Colceus m. spermologus) I can find no record of first and second layings of the same bird in the same season having been found bedaubed: so the following instance may be of interest. The first laying, consisting of six fresh eggs, all equally daubed, was found on April 25th, 1928, in a hole in a beech tree at Lavant, west Sussex ; ...

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