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IY Us head and the upper parts of the body. 
Zig .. It is very common in railway cuttings, 
4 old sand-pits, and in the neighbourhood 
iy m= of sandy cliffs, into which it drives burrows some three or 
four inches in diameter, and sometimes as much as four or 
five feet in length. These always slope slightly upwards, so 
that rain-water cannot lodge in them, and the nest, which 
consists of little more than a handful of straw, grass, and 
feathers, is placed in a chamber at the end. The small, 
fragile eggs, four or five in number, are pure white in colour 
with a delicate pinkish tinge, which disappears when the 
contents are removed. 
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