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EGGS AND EGG-COLLBOTING. 61 
sometimes without either moss or hair. The eggs number 
four or five, of a dull bluish or cinereous white with ir- 
regular streaks of dark brown, often terminating in a spot 
at one end. 
THE HAWFINCH. 
Taz Hawfinch builds in various kinds of trees and at 
various heights ; sometimes its nest is found quite exposed 
in a whitethorn bush, or on the horizontal branch of an 
oak. It is built of twigs, &c., intermixed with lichens, 
and interlined with fine fibrous roots and hair. Her eggs 
number from four to six, of a pale olive-green colour, 
irregularly streaked with dusky grey and spotted with 
black. The ground-colour is variable, being sometimes of 
a buffish hue. 
THE STOOK DOVE. 
Cuzrts in rocks, rabbit-holes, cavities in the trunks of trees, 
and often on the ground beneath thick furze-bushes which 
are next door to waterproof on account of their thickness, 
are the situations chosen by the Stock Dove. Very little 
trouble is taken with the nest, which merely consists of a 
few twigs and roots. The eggs only number two, of a pure 
shining white. 
THE DARTFORD WARBLER. 
Turck furze-bushes are the places chosen by this bird for 
its nesting-place on the commons of Kent and Surrey, 
The materials used are dead branches of furze, moss, and 
dry grass mixed with wool, and lined inside with finer dead 
grasses, the whole structure being loosely put together, 
The eggs number four or five, and are of a greenish, somes 
