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as is the case with all insect-feeding birds. The e^gs 

 are four or five in number, of dull white, tinored witii 

 blue, and spotted with iaint red. It only vibits us to 

 breed here. — Fig. (S, plate 11. 



RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER— (il/z^jaV^z/^ 

 parva). 



Accidental winter visitor. 



PIED FLYCATCHER— (J/?/^(:/r^/^ atricapilla). 



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

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

 small roots, bents, giass, moss, hair, or some sucli 

 material, in a hole, usually in pollard trees, or such 

 as have decayed from natural causes, but sometimes 

 also Ih 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 III.— ORIOLlDiE. 



GOLDEN QViVd'hY.—{Oriolus galbida). 

 Only an occasional summer visitor. 



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

 garden, as late as mid-July." ("A Year with tlie Birds,'' p. 130.) A 

 book which might well be in every bird-lover's bookcase. Mr. 

 Warde Fowler is the author. 



