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fpecies builds its nelt in fome low fhrub or hedge ; and tliat the female 

 lays lix eggs, which are of a blue- green colour, and fpotted with 

 black * : it is obferved alfo, that the Redwing perches on high trees 

 in the maple forefts in Sweden^ and has a fine note in fpring. 



♦ We believe it may be aflerted with entire confidence, that the collection of the eggs 

 of Britifh Birds in our poffeffion, is beyond comparifon, the moft perfe6l that ever has 

 been brought together; and as the introduftion of the eggs are confeffedly requifite to 

 tomplete the Natural Hiftory of our birds, the reader will be induced, we truft, to ap- 

 prove our intention of introducing the figures of thefe in the moffc compendious form the 

 Jntereft of the fubjedl will admit, in a diftinctly feparate Supplement to the prefent Work. 

 A genuine work on this interelting fubjedt is uuqueftionably much wanted. 



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