How Do I Calculate Confidence Intervals for Two Means?

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Here is the question I'm struggling with (Q1) :
Textbook page showing a 'Special case' note and exercise 1 on hedgesparrow egg counts, with a table of change in number of eggs (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) against frequency (4, 27, 77, 43, 11).

I just... I just don't understand what my first step is.
Whats my barx1 and barx2? (bar x = mean, x1 = subscript 1)

My thoughts on approaching this question :
barX1 - barX2 `~ N(u1-u2, sd1^2/n1 + sd2^2/n2)
Find Z value when p = 0.975, z = + or - 1.96
Formula : (barx1-barx2)-z(root (sd1^2/n1 + sd2^2/n2) < (u1-u2) < (barx1-barx2)-z(root (sd1^2/n1 + sd2^2/n2)

Please help me! Thank you :)
 
In this case I believe the author wants you to look at the differences directly...the random variable is ##(x_2-x_1)## and the table provides the data. Maybe draw a graph.