Their Eggs and Nests. 69 



as is the case with all insect-feeding birrls. The ep^c^'s 

 are four or five in number, of dull white, tino^ed with 

 blue, and spotted with faint red. It only visits us to 

 breed here. — Fig. G, plate II. 



RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER— (J//^jaV^/a 

 pa7'va). 



Accidental winter visitor. 



PIED Y'LYCkTQKEK—^Muscicapa airicapilla). 



Coldfinch. — A rare bird in some localities, and not 

 an abundant one in any. The nest is loosely made of 

 small roots, bents, grass, moss, hair, or some such 

 materia], in a hole, usually in pollard trees, or such 

 as have decayed from natural causes, but sometimes 

 also in a hole in a wall or other building. In it may 

 be found four to eight eggs of a uniform light blue 

 colour. — Fig. 7, plate II. 



FAMILY ILL— ORIOLIDJ^. 



GOLDEN ORIOLE— ((9;7'^///i- galbula). 

 Only an occasional summer visitor. 



Another pair placed their nest on the sun-dial in a gentleman's 

 garden, as kite as mid-July." ("A Year with the Birds," p. 130.) A 

 book whicli migiit well be in every bird lover's bookcase. Mr. 

 Wardo Fowler is the author. 



