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THE GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
Tuts bird is, to a very great extent, an accidental visitor to 
our shores, but it is thought by eminent authorities that it 
would become a common breeder with us were it not so dear 
to the heart of the collector. It has bred in several of the 
southern counties of England, and suspends its nest, which 
is composed of strips of bark, wool, sedge, grass, and leaves, 
with an inner lining of flower-heads of grass, beneath the 
forks of a large horizontal branch at some considerable 
height from the ground. The eggs number four to five 
or six, are white or light creamy-white, spotted with 
purplish-brown and underlying markings of grey. 
THE OSPREY. 
Tue Osprey, now only met with in one or two remote 
parts of Scotland, employs sticks, turf, moss, and wool 
in the construction of its bulky nest, which it builds on 
the top of a tall tree or ruin. The eggs number three, some- 
times four, varying from white to creamy-white in ground 
colour, beautifully marked, and especially so at the larger 
end, as a rule with rich reddish-brown. The markings 
vary considerably. 
THE WHITE WAGTAIL, 
Axttuoves this bird is the Continental representative of 
our Pied Wagtail, there are on record many well-authen- 
ticated instances of its breeding in this country. It differs 
from the Pied Wagtail in being bluish or slate grey, where 
