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BRITISH BIRDS. 
mon in the northern parts of Europe, Afia, and 
America. Numbers of them frequent the Hebrides 
in the breeding feafon, which is from May till 
Auguft. The female makes her neft of mofs on 
the dry gralfy tufts in boggy places, and lays two 
eggs of an alh-colour, fpotted with black. 
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