. Coloured figures of the eggs of British birds : with descriptive notices . Spatted Redshank. __ v S&&. Yellowshank . BartratrTs Sandpiper. S Bradford Li* Sheffield EGGS OF BEITISH BIRDS. 177 Eing Ouzel or Blackbird, and is then finally lined with fibrousrootlets, quite as coarse as those the Magpie uses, and one or twopieces of sedgy grass. In general appearance the nest resemblesmost closely a common Magpies without the sticks, just the merecup, and is far more coarsely made than the nests of the trueThrushes. The eggs, greenish-white, with minute reddish spots, werethree, although most pro
. Coloured figures of the eggs of British birds : with descriptive notices . Spatted Redshank. __ v S&&. Yellowshank . BartratrTs Sandpiper. S Bradford Li* Sheffield EGGS OF BEITISH BIRDS. 177 Eing Ouzel or Blackbird, and is then finally lined with fibrousrootlets, quite as coarse as those the Magpie uses, and one or twopieces of sedgy grass. In general appearance the nest resemblesmost closely a common Magpies without the sticks, just the merecup, and is far more coarsely made than the nests of the trueThrushes. The eggs, greenish-white, with minute reddish spots, werethree, although most probably the full number had not been resemble those of the Mistle Thrush, but the ground-colouris slightly paler, and the spots much finer, more numerous, andmore evenly distributed. They measure 1/2 inch in length and09 inch in breadth. THE SIBEBIAN GEOUND THEUSH. (Geocichla sibirica.)* Plate 50, Fig. 3. The only claim of the Siberian Ground Thrush to be includedin the list of British birds rests upon a single example, which wassent to the late Mr. F. Bond by a dealer, who informed him that
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