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BIRDS NESTS. 



which it has had no experience, to foreign 

 lands, to which it has no guide, there to join 

 the company of adult birds who have preceded 

 it many weeks ! Here, at least, the infidel 

 must acknowledge the teaching of HIM who 

 is invisible. 



The egg of the cuckoo is of a pale reddish 

 grey, speckled with brown, and exactly the 

 same size as that of the skylark, though the 

 comparative size of the two birds is as four to 

 one. 



NEST OF BULLFINCH. 



