EGGS AND EGG-COLLECTING. 27 
THE WRYNECK, 
TuE eges of this bird are from five to eight in number, of 
a pure white. She makes her nest in holes in the trunks 
of trees. It is made of dry, rotten wood, which is ground 
down to a kind of powder, and it has been found lined 
with moss and feathers. 
THE GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 
Tuts little bird, like the others of its tribe, lays a consider- 
able number of eggs for its small size. They are eight or 
nine in number, thickly spotted with reddish-brown, these 
spots being confluent at the larger end. The underground 
colour is a faint fleshy tint. Her nest is made of moss 
and lichens, and is lined with willow-down and feathers. 
The outside of the nest generally harmonises with its 
situation, which is amongst the branches of a tree, 
generally of the fir, from a branch of which the nest is 
usually suspended. 
/ THE WHITETHROAT. “* 
Tue Whitethroat lays four or five eggs of a greenish- 
white colour, spotted with brown and gray, the spots 
sometimes form a zone or belt round the larger end. 
Her nest is made of dead grass and a little hair, 
loosely attached, the nest being carelessly made. It is 
situated in low thick herbage, or amongst nettles, or other 
ground weeds. 
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THE SISKIN. 
Tuts bird lays four or five eggs of a bluish ground colour, 
some being spotted all over with cloudy rusty spots, cthers 
with these spots well defined about the larger end. Her 
