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Title: Britain's birds and their nests
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thomson, Arthur Landsborough, Sir, 1890- Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933 Rankin, George
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Nests
Publisher: London : W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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g only in some eastern and south-eastern districts. As well as being an ordinary resident inEngland, the Jay also occurs as a migrant on the eastcoast. Considerable eruptions are recorded now and then,and some of these have been synchronous with enormousexceptional migrations recorded in the same seasons fromHeligoland. The Jay is strictly a forest bird, and its hareh screammay often be heard in the gloomy depths where otherbiid-life is scarce. The nest may be placed in a bush, orat no great height in a tree. It is a well-built structure oftwigs, lined with grasses or roots, and has nothing in theway of a dome like the Magpies. The five or six eggsare grayish gieen, with brownish specks or zones, and some-times fine black scrollings. THE CHOUGH (Pyrrhocorax graculus). The Chough is a gracefully built member of the Crowfamily, with red legs and beak, the latter longish andslightly decurved. The bird is now rare owing to persecu-tion and to the competition of the Jackdaw, It is a cliff-
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Plate 78. STARLING—Stiir iius vulgai-is. Length, 85 in. ; wing, 5-2 in. (Passeres : Sturnida;.)2 E 244 BRITAINS BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS. 245 nester, chiefly coastal. From the east of Great Britainthe Chough has vanished. On the south-west of Englandit is still found in small numbers ( Cornish Chough itis often called), and sparingly along the west of GreatBritain, including the Isle of Man, to the Inner Hebrides.In Wales it has some inland haunts, as it has also inIreland. It is also sparingly distributed round the Irishcoast, except on the east. The nest is placed in some fissure in a cliff, bank,or ruin—often in a cave. The three to five eggs aregi-ayish or greenish white, spotted and streaked withgrays and browns. Family, STURNID^ (Starlings). THE STARLING (Sturnus vulgaris). Plate 78. The appearance and habits of the Starling hardlyrequire description, so abundant and noticeable a bird isit in practically eveiy part of the British Isles. And yetonly half a century ago the Starli

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