. Birds' nests, eggs and egg-collecting . The eggs number from six or seven to nine, oreven a dozen, and vary from buffish-grey to pale olive-greyin colour. THE GREENSHANK. Breeds chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland, and theislands lying to the west thereof. Its nest is merely aslight declivity lined with a few bits of dry grass, deadheather, or leaves. The eggs number four, of a stonecolour or creamy-white, spotted and blotched darkreddish-brown and grey. THE WHHilBREL. Tjie islands to the west and north of Scotland are thebreeding home of the Whimbrel. A slight dry hollow inthe shelter of a
. Birds' nests, eggs and egg-collecting . The eggs number from six or seven to nine, oreven a dozen, and vary from buffish-grey to pale olive-greyin colour. THE GREENSHANK. Breeds chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland, and theislands lying to the west thereof. Its nest is merely aslight declivity lined with a few bits of dry grass, deadheather, or leaves. The eggs number four, of a stonecolour or creamy-white, spotted and blotched darkreddish-brown and grey. THE WHHilBREL. Tjie islands to the west and north of Scotland are thebreeding home of the Whimbrel. A slight dry hollow inthe shelter of a tussock of grass or heath is selected onsome lonely piece of moor. The nest is lined with a fewblades of withered grass, sprigs of heather, or dead eggs number four, varying from darkish buff to olive-green, spotted and blotched with reddish-brown, olive-Irown, and underlying markings of grey. J THE REED WARBLER. Th[s bird suspends its nest between the stems of reeds andbranches of willows and other trees growing from or over. EGGS. I. Wood Warbler 2 Greenshank 3. Sandwich Tern. 4. Reed Warbler 5 Wliimbrel. 6. Black 7 Garganey. 8 Merganser q Bearded Tit. EGGS AND EGG-COLLECTING. 81 water. It is composed of sedge grass^ reed leaves, moss,.hair, and reed down. It is found in the Southern andEastern portions of England. The eggs number four orfive, liglit greenisli-blue or greenish-white, spotted, freckled,and clouded with greenish-brown or dark olive, and under-lying markings of greyish-brown. The spots are generallymost numerous round the larger end of the Qg^. THE WOOD WARBLEE. Breeds sparingly throughout England and in SouthernScotland. Its nest is placed in tufts of coarse grass andother vegetation on the ground, and is composed of drygrass, leaves, and bits of moss, and lined with horsehaironly. This feature will readily distinguish it from the nestof the Chiffchaff and Willow Wren, whose semi-domedstructures it closely resembles in other
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