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and dry grass, with a small portion of moss, and is lined 
with finer grass ; like the nests of most birds that build 
upon the ground, it is very slightly woven together, and 
is not easily brought away whole. 
The eggs, which nearly all of our ornithologists have 
described as of a spotless blue, are quite as frequently 
very finely dotted, and sometimes, though very rarely, 
distinctly spotted with rust colour; they are almost in¬ 
variably six in number. 
