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NUTCRACKER. 
PLATE XLIX. 
Nucifraga caryocatactes, ‘ : SeLrpy. JENYNS. 
Caryocatactes nucifraga, . ? . FLemine. 
Corvus caryocatactes, . : . Pennant. Montaeu. 
THE nest is placed in holes of trees, which they 
scoop out like the Woodpeckers, till their purpose is 
gained. 
The eggs are five or six in number, of a yellowish 
grey colour, spotted with lighter and darker shades of 
brown. 
The plate is copied from a figure in Schinz’s Eggs 
and Nests of the Birds of Switzerland and Germany. 
