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58.—C. monedula.—Jackdaw. 
The quantity of sticks amassed by these birds for their 
nest is really amazing; on one occasion having com- 
menced on a step in a church tower, and being 
puzzled to make a firm basis, they added stick after 
stick as supports, till they arrived at a landing six or 
seven steps below the situation chosen. The eggs 
are 1 inch 7 lines by 1 inch % line, of a pale bluish 
white, spotted with ash-colour and clove brown. 
PICA. 
59.—Pica caudata.— Magpie. 
Whether the obstacles enhance the pleasure of the attempt 
or not, it is astonishing that a nest so well defended 
against attacks, as is that of this bird, should be 
plundered as it is ; for though built of thorns, all the 
points of which project outwards, and the entrance 
at the side not large enough to admit the hand, yet 
the eggs are as surely to be seen on the string of the 
school-boy as those of thrushes and blackbirds ; they 
are 1 inch 43 lines by 1 inch, ofa pale greenish 
white, spotted all over with various shades of green- 
ısh brown. 
GARRULUS. 
60.—Garrulus glandarius.— Jay. 
The eggs of a yellowish white, thickly speckled all over 
with light brown. 
SCANSORES. 
PICIDAE. PICUS,. 
61.—Picus viridis.— Green Woodpecker. 
These birds make no nest, depositing their eggs on the soft 
particles of decayed wood in the holes of trees, which 
they excavate for themselves, carrying away the frag- 
