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REDWING. 



SWINEFIPE. WIND THRUSH. 



PLATE C. 



Turrius Iliacus, LINNAEUS. 



i\leru/a Iliaca, JARDINE. SFLBY. 



nest is placed in the centre of a thorn or other 

 -*- bush, alder, birch, maple, or other tree, or a 

 cluster of stems, and is made of moss, roots, and dry 

 grass outwardly, cemented together with clay, and lined 

 inwardly with finer grass. 



Mr. Wolley says that this bird 'makes its nest 

 near the ground, in an open part of the wood, generally 

 in the outskirts, on a stump, a log, or the roots of a 

 fallen tree; sometimes amongst a cluster of young stems 

 of the birch, usually quite exposed, so as almost to seem 

 as if placed so purposely the walls often supported 

 only by their foundation. The first or coarse part of 

 the nest is made for the most part of dried bents, 

 sometimes with fine twigs and moss; this is lined with 

 a thin layer of mud, and then is added a thick bed of 

 fine grass of the previous year, compactly woven to- 

 gether, which completes the structure. Outside is often 

 a good deal of the kind of lichen called rein-deer moss, 

 and one nest particularly, which I have preserved, is 



