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to make the note you wrote for, when on passing the second 

 time I found, to my surprise, the five eggs had gone, although 

 the birds were still there. Noticing the inside of the nest 

 was not so deep as before, I pushed my hand further down 

 and felt the five eggs. It seems that they had built a thin 

 lining over the eggs, which I first thought was to hide them 

 away, but I found out after they had made a partial new 

 nest on top of the other and laid another clutch. The first 

 set of eggs was poorly developed, and fairly easily blown. 

 Between the laying of the two sets of eggs there was an 

 interval of some fourteen days, including the time occupied 

 in depositing the second clutch." 



Nest. — Similar in every way to the previous species. 

 Both are placed in the forks of perpendicular branches. 



Eggs. — The specimens taken from five different nests 

 show very varying diflferences. The ground colour will be 

 pale green or brown. The spots may be lilac or chestnut, 

 and the streaks of the same. Clutch, 3. Length, 1-5 inches ; 

 breadth, 1-1 inches. 



