PLATE I 

 BULLFINCH. Pyrrhula Europaea 



May 26///, 1897. This nest was shown me in a garden near Norwich ; it 

 was built high up in the top of a thick boxwood-tree, near the end of one 

 of the branches which overhung a path. I had some difficulty in getting at 

 it, but managed at last with the aid of a long step-ladder and a wheelbarrow, 

 in which I stood the ladder. 



In this same garden I was shown no less than five Bullfinches' nests, 

 all in boxwood-trees, and usually in the thickest part near the top. 



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