THE CHAFFINCH. 



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prevents it from assuming such an attitude, and that the long 

 Heron can sit as easily upon its pale green eggs as the short- 

 limbed domestic fowl on her white eggs. 



Some of our common British birds build nests that can vie, in 

 point of beauty and delicacy, with any nest made by birds of 

 other lands. It is scarcely possible to conceive a nest which is 

 more worthy of admiration than that of the Long-tailed Titmouse, 

 which has already been described ; and in their own way, the 



KESr OF THE CIIAFFIXCH. 



houses erected by the Chaffinch and Goldfinch are quite as 

 beautiful. As there are some points of similarity in the two 

 nests, they will be mentioned in connexion with each other. 

 First, we will take the nest of the Chaffixch {Fringilla copilebs). 



