60 EGG8 AND EGG-COLLECTING. 
The situation of the nest, its materials and stiucture, also 
the eggs of the Ring Ouzel and Blackbird, differ but 
little, and I have often had a difficulty in determining the 
rightful owner of a nest, until the parent bird has been 
watched on or off. The nest is composed of coarse grass, 
moss, and mud, with an inner lining of finer grass, and is 
generally situated in clefts of rock, steep banks, or old 
walls, sometimes quite on the ground.” The eggs number 
four or five, of a dull bluish-green, freckled or blotched 
with reddish-brown, markings generally larger and fewer 
than those of the Blackbird. 
THE KENTISH PLOVER. 
No trouble is taken by this bird in nest-building, simply 
depositing its eggs in some depression or hollow of the 
sand or shingle on the southern coasts of England, princi- 
pally Kent and Sussex. The eggs number four, and are of 
a cream, stone, or pale testaceous-brown colour, streaked 
and spotted with black. 
THE BUZZARD. 
THe Buzzard sometimes builds a nest of sticks, hay, leaves, 
and wool; at others adopts a crow’s nest in some mo- 
derately high tree. Her eggs number two, three, and even 
four, and are of a dingy white; sometimes this colour 
alone, and at others spotted and blotched at the larger end 
with red-brown. 
THE CIRL BUNTING. 
Some low bush or furze is generally adopted by this bird 
for its nesting-place. The nest is composed of dry grass, 
roots, and moss, with generally an inner lining of hair, but 
