7448 Birds. 



Eggs, 3 — 6. Dingy white, tinged with purple, streaked and veined 

 with purple-brown, each streak or vein generally terminating in a spot 

 of the same colour. 



CiRL Bunting, Emheriza Cirlus. 



Situation. " It generally builds in furze or some low bush." — 

 Col. Montagu. 



Materials. " The nest is composed of dried stalks, roots and a little 

 moss, and lined with long hair and fibrous roots." — Col. Montagu. 



Eggs, 4, 5. " The eggs are four or five in number, cinereous-white, 

 with irregular long and short curved dusky lines, terminating fre- 

 quently with a spot at one end ; size rather inferior to those of the 

 yellow hammer." — Col. Montagu. " I have taken several nests in the 

 Isle of Wight."— Mr. Bond. 



Chaffinch, Fringilla coelehs. 



Situation. Generally in forks of smaller branches of lichen-covered 

 apple-trees, but also in other trees ; and I have found the chaffinch's 

 nest in the ivy which sometimes clothes the trunks of trees. 



Materials. Moss, lichens and wool, interwoven into the most com- 

 pact mass, and forming a beautiful and symmetrical object, always 

 assimilating in colour to the site the bird has chosen ; the lining is 

 feathers and hair. 



Eggs, 4, 5. Gray, tinged with blue and pink, and streaked and 

 spotted with purple-red ; sometimes all pale blue. 



Tree Spakrow, Fringilla moiHana. 



Situation. In the holes of pollard and other trees that have gone 

 to decay ; rarely in the thatch of old barns, &c. 



Materials. Hay, straw, lined with feathers, the flowering tops of 

 reeds, &c. ; the top domed over (Zool. 1875). 



Eggs, 4, 5. Gray, thickly spotted with darker gray, or umber-brown ; 

 frequently white, with gray spots or blotches. 



House Sparrow, Fringilla domestica. 



Situation. Generally under the eaves of houses, barns or stables ; 

 sometimes in the mud-built habitation of the martin, but not uncom- 

 monly in trees in exposed situations and quite apart from buildings. 



Materials. Straw and hay, lined witb feathers. 



Eggs 5, 6. Gray, almost white, but thickly sprinkled and spotted 

 with darker gray or black. "Of a very long, oval form." — 

 Mr. Selby. 



Greenfinch, Fringilla chloris. 



Situation. In thick hedges, ivy and other evergreens. 



Materials. Moss and wool, lined with hair and feathers. Mr. 



