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wire, as a warning to other crows and their cousins. There it hung undisturbed
till last spring, when a couple of wrens, coming across the scantily covered
skeleton, hit on the extraordinary idea that it would be a capital place for a nest,
and they made their bedroom and nursery there accordingly. It is a singularly neat
Wren's nest in the body of a dead Crow.
structure of twigs and oakleaves, and is described as being placed 'just above the
thigh bones, between the wings.' It is certainly a strange thing that a carrion
crow should come to form a home for a couple of wrens and their young. How-
ever, the curiosity exists in the possession of Mr. George French, of Colchester,
and from a copyright photograph of it exhibited by Mr. W. Wright, of North
Hill, Colchester, this engraving is taken."