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Identifier: nestseggsofbriti00dixo (find matches)
Title: The nests and eggs of British birds : when and where to find them : being a handbook to the oology of the British Islands
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Dixon, Charles, 1858-1926
Subjects: Birds -- Nests Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall

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TWITE. LINNET TREESPARROW. HOUSE SPARROW. SISKIN GOLDFINCH. Virj:et«.Brooks,Day*-SoJvChroinolith.
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THE NESTS AND EGGS OFBRITISH BIRDS. Family CORVID.^. Genus CORVUS. RAVEN. CoRvus CORAX, LhmcEUS. Single Brooded. Laying season, March and April,sometimes in February. British breeding area : The Raven is slowly-vanishing as a breeding species from England. At thepresent time it breeds here and there on the rocky-headlands of the south coast of England, but few arethe places where it is allowed to do so in peace. Oneor two pairs breed regularly on the coast of Devonshire(one pair to my knowledge this season on the rocksnear Watcombe). In Wales it is perhaps more common.The great stronghold of this species now is in the wilddistricts of Ireland and the Highlands, especially in theHebrides (including St. Kilda), where it nests com-monly, even in spite of ceaseless persecution. Inlandlocalities are now nearly deserted, except in verysecluded places, and the Ravens great breeding strong-holds are on the ocean cliffs. Breeding habits : The Raven lives in the company 2 THE NESTS AND EGGS OF

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