The Chaffinch 



( Fringilla ccelebs ) LlNNiBUS. 



MALE, FEMALE, NEST, AND EGGS. 



TV ^ the t0 P of the elder stump on the right is a beautiful nest of this species, 

 1 containing five eggs. The site chosen for the nest is certainly an 



abnormal one, but nevertheless of great interest; and although quite exposed it 

 is not by any means easy to see. In the first place the nest is almost of the 

 same diameter as the main stem; the colour, too, harmonises very well, and, as if 

 to imitate the surroundings more closely, the birds have carefully decorated the 

 outside with numerous fragments of the rotten wood from the stump. The nest 

 is the natural distance from the ground ; in the original habitat there was 

 another stump in close proximity and a little to the right of it, but it afforded 

 little or no protection, and could not be included here. 



The upper specimen is the male. 



Presented by Dr. H. Dobie and Mr. R. Newstead, Senr. 



