. 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. . -A/<r« ,*v ^t^- <t/iC Afitc/iaU. MONEDULA. (linn.) Jackdaw. The Jackdaw builds its nest in many opposite situations ;most commonly in holes in old ruins, in lofty church steeples,being very numerous in our cathedrals; also in cliffs andprecipices, and sometimes in the holes of decayed trees. Inaddition to these localities, a mos
. 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. . -A/<r« ,*v ^t^- <t/iC Afitc/iaU. MONEDULA. (linn.) Jackdaw. The Jackdaw builds its nest in many opposite situations ;most commonly in holes in old ruins, in lofty church steeples,being very numerous in our cathedrals; also in cliffs andprecipices, and sometimes in the holes of decayed trees. Inaddition to these localities, a most curious circumstance ismentioned by White in his History of Selhorne, of a race ofthese birds that took it into their heads to breed in the holesof a Rabbit warren. The nest is composed of sticks, linedwith wool, dry grass, and such like materials ; the eggs arefrom four to six in number; those in the plate being themost opposite varieties which I have seen in a series of seve-ral dozens. The Jackdaw begins to breed in April.
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