ROBIN REDBREAST. 
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of them occupied, each by the nest of a different pair of 
Robins. 
A pair of Redbreasts had their nest in some ivy 
against a garden wall near Newcastle, which the owner 
was about to remove, but being unwilling to disturb its 
tenants, he took the nest and eggs, and placing them in a 
neighbouring bush, had the satisfaction of seeing the old 
bird again reseated on her eggs. 
The eggs are mostly four or five, sometimes six, and 
even seven in number; they differ a good deal in colouring, 
some are almost, some perfectly, white, others are spar¬ 
ingly but distinctly spotted, and resemble eggs of the 
green linnet, whilst the majority are like the first figure 
of the Plate. 
