Bt EGGS AND EGG-COLLECTING. 
THE STORM PETREL. 
Tue Scilly Islands, St. Kilda, the Orkneys, Shetland, and 
the Irish coast, are the breeding haunts of the Storm 
Petrel. The nest is placed on the ground, amongst cliffs 
and under large-sized stones, being composed of pieces of 
dry earth and stalks of plants. One single white egg, 
about the size of a Blackbird’s, is laid. 
THE STONECHAT. 
Tus pert little bird'is very dexterous in the art of nest- 
building, selecting for materials moss and dry grasses 
to form the outer structure, and feathers, hair, &c., for 
lining the interior. The position selected is generally on 
the ground, at the bottom of a furze-bush, though some- 
times quite away from any bush. The eggs number five 
or six, and are of a pale blue-green, with minute reddish- 
brown spots, chiefly at the larger end. 
THE WHEATEAR. 
A SHELTERED and darkened situation is generally chosen by 
the Wheatear wherein to build her nest—chinks of stone 
walls, the ruins of cairns, in old rabbit-burrows, under 
stones on moors, mountain wilds, &. The nest, not very 
artistic in construction, is composed of a variety of materials, 
such as bents, grass roots pulled up by the sheep when 
grazing, and dried in the sun, hair and wool gathered from 
brambles, corners of rocks, and walls against which the 
sheep have rubbed themselves. The eggs number five or 
six, and are of a pale greenish-blue colour unspotted. 
