BRITISH OOLOGY; 



BEING 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF THE 



EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS, 



WITH FIGUR^ OF EACH SPECIES, 

 AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE, 



DRAWN AND COLOURED FROM NATURE: 



ACCOMPANIED BV 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MATERIALS AND SITUATION OF THEIRNESTS, 



NUMBER OF EGGS, &C. 



BY WILLIx\M C. HEWITSON. 



VOL. L 



" Some to the holly-hedge. 

 Nestling repair, and to the thicket some ; 

 Some to the rude protection of the thorn 

 Commit their feeble offspring : The cleft tree 

 Offers its kind concealment to a few. 

 Their food its insects, and its moss their nests. 

 Others apart far in the grassy dale. 

 Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. 

 But most in woodland solitudes delight. 

 In unfrequented glooms, or shaggy banks. 

 Steep, and divided by a babbling brook." 



NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE : 



PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, 



BY CHARLES EMPSON, 32, COLLINGWOOD STREET. 



