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the trunk, at a height of ten or fifteen feet from the ground. 

 Shy, too, as the bird is at other times, in its nidification it is 

 not deterred from any appropriate situation by the near pro- 

 pinquity of a house, or by persons constantly passing and 

 repassing, it often building without any attempt at conceal- 

 ment. The same tree is often returned to year after year, 

 if the birds be undisturbed, and Mr. Frederick Bond, of 

 Kingsbury, has known the same nest used twice in the same 

 season. They will suffer other species to t build near them, 

 without any molestation, even during the time of incubation. 



The eggs are four to five in number, of a greenish or 

 tawny white colour, spotted and blotted and more or less 

 suffused irregularly with brown, reddish brown, or purple red, 

 they vary in size as well as in colour and shape, some being 

 much larger than others. They are hatched in about sixteen 

 days. 



Two and sometimes three broods are reared in the 

 season. 



