68 EGGS AND EGG-COLLECTING. 
Sweden, in large numbers. They build their nests near to 
the trunks of spruce trees, employing such materials as 
sticks and coarse grass, and weeds gathered wet, intermixed 
with clay, and lined internally with long grass. The eggs 
number from three to six, somewhat resembling those of 
the Blackbird or Ring Ouzel. 
THE RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 
Tur Red-backed Shrike lays five or six eggs of a pink- 
white or cream-colour, with brown spots predominating 
at the larger end. Her nest is composed of wool, moss, 
bents of grass, and hair, and is situated in furze-bushes, 
whitethorn hedges, &c. 
THE CHOUGH. 
Tus bird builds her nest in sea-cliffs, in caves, old 
ruins, &c., near the sea. It is composed of sticks, lined 
with a liberal application of wool and hair. Her eggs 
number five or six of a dirty white colour, spotted and 
blotched chiefly at the larger end with raw sienna-brown 
and ash colour. 
THE PUFFIN 
Lays one grey-coloured egg marked with indistinct spots of 
pale brown ; the nest is generally minus materials, so the egg 
is placed on the bare earth at the extremity of a burrow or 
fissure in a sea cliff. She often adopts a rabbit-burrow if 
