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Title: Birds' nests, eggs and egg-collecting
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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or the most veteran collector to find it. It lays fiveor six eggs of a delicate bluish-green, rarely speckled ormarked with red-bro^vn. THE SCOTER. The most northern counties of Scotland are the nesting-places of this bird, which gathers together such materialsas twigs, grasses, dry stalks, and leaves, placing themunder cover, or in hiding, afforded by the low-growingshrubs or plants, and lining the whole with down. Theeggs number from six to ten, and are of a pale greyish-buff colour, sometimes slightly tinged with green. THE GKEY WAGTAIL. Some naturalists describe the position of this bird^s nest ason the ground ; but, personally, I have generally foundthem in the niches of rocks, or under overhanging ledges orbanks. The nest is composed of moss, bents, grass,horsehair, often lined with a coat of cows-hair, which theyrub off against walls and trees in the spring-time. Thisbird^s eggs number five or six, and are of a grey colour,mottled and spotted with ochre-grey or brown, variable.
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EGGS. I. Rock Pipit. 2. Cormorant. 3. Creeper. 4- Turtle Dove.5. Shore Lark. 6. Gannet. 7. Quail. 8. Oyster-catcher. 9. Cole Tit. EGGS AND EGG-COLLECTING. 65 THE SMEW. The nesting-place of this bird is in high latitudes, such asnortli-east Russia, and the situation chosen is in thehollow trunk of a tree. The material of which the nest iscomposed is taken from the birds body, and consistsentirely of down. Her eggs number from seven to eight,very similar to those of the Wigeon, creamy-white incolour, fine-grained, and rather glossy. J THE BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. JkO ^ b Moist swampy localities are chosen by this bird as thesituation for its nest, which is composed of dried grass,moss, and an inner lining of finer grass, reed-down, orhorsehair, and generally, though not always, placed on theground, among rushes or coarse long grass. It lays fouror five eggs of a pale reddish-brown or grey with a rosytinge, streaked, veined^ and spotted with brown of a richdark purple shade. THE GREAT SPOTT

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