. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . 139 Sky Lark - Wood Owl 81 Greater Titmouse — Wood Lark 107 Eagle Owl — Cole Titmouse 95 Green Woodpecker — Scops-eared Owl — Bearded Titmouse — Great Spotted Wood. — Tengmalms Owl 105 Hedge Sparrow pecker 136 Little Owl — Alpine Accentor — Lesser Spotted Wood 108 Great Shrike 59 Pied Wagtail pecker — Wood Chat — Grey Wagtail — Wryneck 2 Red-back
. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . 139 Sky Lark - Wood Owl 81 Greater Titmouse — Wood Lark 107 Eagle Owl — Cole Titmouse 95 Green Woodpecker — Scops-eared Owl — Bearded Titmouse — Great Spotted Wood. — Tengmalms Owl 105 Hedge Sparrow pecker 136 Little Owl — Alpine Accentor — Lesser Spotted Wood 108 Great Shrike 59 Pied Wagtail pecker — Wood Chat — Grey Wagtail — Wryneck 2 Red-backed Shrike — Yellow Wagtail 49 Nuthatch 6 Thrush 134 Grey-headed Yellow — Creeper - Blackbird Wagtail 154 Common Wren - Missel Thrush 68 Rock Lark 55 Cuckoo 58 Fieldfare — Tit Lark 149 American Cuckoo — Ring Ouzel 114 Tree Pipit 111 Hoopoe 72 Water Ouzel 8 Pied Flycatcher 113 Roller 13 Golden Oriole - Spotted Flycatcher 10 Kingfisher 22 Stone Chat 69 Raven — Bee-eater — Whin Chat 91 Carrion Crow 21 Swallow — White Rump 97 Hooded Crow 14 Martin 90 Nightingale 71 Rook — Sand Martin — Redbreast 44 Jackdaw — Swift 110 Redstart [start 6o Magpie 30 Night Hawk - Tythis or Black Rcd- 112 Coruish Chough l-i ZXVI. I/raif.: Mr<St<?,iA in W L ^ra/:. /■fwvjf* ly CiTnUmtnMl CHRYSyETOS. (linn.) Golden Eaole. This noble bird is now very rare in Britain, and will,I fear, with many of the same persecuted tribe, ere longbecome extinct; it breeds in the Highlands of Scotland, inOrkney, and in Shetland; and, though I traversed the wholeof the hitter group of islands, and spent six weeks amongstthem, I could only hear of three or four eyries belonging toour two species of eagles, and could only ascertain with cer-tainty that one of them was the breeding place of the GoldenEagle: this was in the cliffs of Foula (perhaps the finest inthe British empire), and at an elevation of about 1,100 feetabove the sea, being then 100 feet from the
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