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internal cup was large and deep, but externally there was no exact 
shape, the nest being so formed as to fill up the whole lower portion 
of the cavity, and the outer side was alone neatly finished off ; in this 
the breadth was all but two inches, whilst the back wall must have 
been fully five and the two sides nearly as much. The cup was 
4:8" in diameter and 4:1” in depth. An immense amount of material 
had been used, and as the moss was all wet and mixed with a great 
deal of earth, the weight also was very great. The base, back, sides 
and outer wall were composed outwardly entirely of moss with the 
roots attached ; the root ends with the wet earth were placed down- 
wards and inwards ; thus the visible portion of the nest was all bright 
green moss ; inside this outer layer was another, about an inch thick, 
of muddy fern and moss roots, and inside this again the true lining of 
clean dead moss alone. Other nests I have taken from the banks 
of rocky streams; they may be either placed in depressions in mossy 
banks and be quite concealed from view by the waving bracken and 
luxuriant moss ferns, or they may be in bare patches and resting on 
ledges of rock visible to, though almost unobtainable by, every passer- 
by ; sometimes, again, they are built in holes and hollows over a foot 
deep. Once I took a nest from undera large slab of rock in a gloomy 
ravine, over which the water was constantly running, falling with 
a splash into a little pool some four feet below it, sprinkling the nest 
and the young birds with the spray. . The damp, however, did not seen 
to effect their spirits, for I found them out by the great chirping that 
was being carried on between them, and it is evident that thrushes 
do not suffer from rheumatism and colds. ‘ 
One nest I took in 1889 was built on a dead stump, up which was 
growing a mass of creeping plants. The nest was completely hidden 
by the overhanging leaves, and I should never have found it but for 
the parent-bird flying off just as I passed. It was about 34 feet from 
the ground and rested partly on the tangle of creeper stems and partly 
on the stump. In shape it was a deep cup, broader at the base than 
at the top ; this nest was lined with grass and had also a few leaves, 
both in the inside and woven into the outer part as well. There was 
also less earth than usual, and altogether it was a lighter-built nest than 
are 19 out of 20. The walls at the top were about 1°3" thick and the 
base about 3”, 
