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degrees a light gvey colour ; but it is probable they are 

 several years old before they attain the very dark sooty 

 grey colour ; so many shades of grey being observable among 

 them. 



The vignette below represents the nest of the Black 

 Redstart, reduced in size, from the coloured figure forming 

 the subject of the fifteenth plate in the work of Dr. Schinz 

 on the Eggs and Nests of the Birds of Switzerland and Ger- 

 many, published at Zurich in 1819. 



