NESTS AND EGGS 



OF 



BRITISH BIRDS. 



CHAFFINCH. 



SHILFA. SCOBBY. SHELLY. SKELLY. 



SHELL-APPLE. BEECH-FINCH. TWINK. SPINK. PINK. 

 TWEET. HORSE-FINCH. 



PLATE LXXX. 

 Fringilla cahbs, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



rnHE nest is truly a beautiful piece of workmanship, 

 compact and neat in the highest degree. It is 

 usually so well adapted to the colour of the place where 

 it is built, as to elude detection from any chance passer 

 by close scrutiny is required to discover it. It is 

 therefore variously made, according to the nature of 

 the elements of construction at hand. Some are built 

 of grasses, stalks of plants, and small roots, compacted 

 with the scales of bark and wool, and lined with hair, 

 VOL. n. R 



