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concealed, and extremely difficult to find; the bird 

 approaching it stealthily by a labyrinthine track. 



The eggs are of a glossy bluish green colour, 

 with some minute specks, and sometimes, though very 

 rarely, of dull reddish brown; they are five or six in 

 number, usually the latter, very rarely seven. 



One is grounded with fine deep greenish blue. 



A second is of a paler bluish green. 



A third sort is very dull greenish blue, with a few 

 reddish spots. 



The young are hatched towards the end of May, and 

 two broods are produced in the season, the first being 

 abroad from the middle of June to the beginning of 

 July, and the second in August. 



Edwin Cottingham, Esq. has favoured me with a 

 drawing of the nest and eggs. 



