. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . <Io111 zo 1-. I- <I-co QHI RUDDY-BREASTED BIRDS. 95 chestnut; under parts whitish, washed with migrant. Eggs.—Usually 6, at times more, pale greenish-blue ; -7 X -55 inch (plate 125). Nest.—Of dry grass, moss, and rootlets, lined withhair and feathers, and placed in a hole in a tree ora wall, and in similarly sheltered recesses in out-buildinga Distribution.—Throughout Great Britain, chiefly inthe south, but rare in the south-west and Pembroke-shire ; less common in Scotland, and very uncommonin Ireland. T
. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . <Io111 zo 1-. I- <I-co QHI RUDDY-BREASTED BIRDS. 95 chestnut; under parts whitish, washed with migrant. Eggs.—Usually 6, at times more, pale greenish-blue ; -7 X -55 inch (plate 125). Nest.—Of dry grass, moss, and rootlets, lined withhair and feathers, and placed in a hole in a tree ora wall, and in similarly sheltered recesses in out-buildinga Distribution.—Throughout Great Britain, chiefly inthe south, but rare in the south-west and Pembroke-shire ; less common in Scotland, and very uncommonin Ireland. The Redstart is most generally observed in springwhen, as a migrant, it drifts across the country,frequenting hedgerows, the woodside, and the ploughedfields in its passage. When seen perched, with rockingtail, on some low branch, post, or rail, it recalls theRedbreast by its pose and ruddy breast, and theWheatear by its closely dressed plumage and blue-gray upper parts bordered by the dark bandsformed by the closed wings, But the identificationof this bird need depend upon n
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