This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...Frequently it is placed in the grass at the foot of a thick furze bush. Where there are no gorse bushes, it is placed among rough grass in a pasture field, or in a meadow. Mr. Henry Stowe, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, took one near Brackley in Northamptonshire, built so near the edge of a pond that the nest was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...Frequently it is placed in the grass at the foot of a thick furze bush. Where there are no gorse bushes, it is placed among rough grass in a pasture field, or in a meadow. Mr. Henry Stowe, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, took one near Brackley in Northamptonshire, built so near the edge of a pond that the nest was quite wet. It is loosely built of stalks of grass and moss, and is lined with finer portions of the former; and occasionally some hair or leaves: it measures six inches across, and two and a half internally. It is very carefully concealed, and extremely difficult to find, as the bird approaches it stealthily. generally over Great Britain. 70 WHINCHAT The eggs are of a glossy bluish-green colour, some times with minute specks of dull reddish brown; they are four to six in number, very rarely seven. The young are hatched towards the end of May, one brood only being generally produced in the season. BLACK-THROATED WHEATEAR BLACK-THROATED CHAT. PLATE CXIII.--FIGURE I. SINGLE specimen of this species has been shot in - Lancashire. It breeds in South Europe and North Africa. The nest is a loose structure of stems of grass, &c, and is placed in holes and crevices in old walls and buildings. The eggs are of a pale greenish tint, speckled with brown. Saxicola stapazina, Vieillot. land by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson in 1888. It is an inhabitant of East Africa and India, extending into China. The nest, which is described by Heuglin as tolerably bulky and lined with soft grasses, is usually placed in the burrows of small animals. The eggs resemble those of the Common Wheatear, being pale blue in colour. DESERT WHEATEAR DESERT CHAT. PLATE CXIII.--FIGURE III. Saxicola deserti, RUPPELL. NE specimen of this bird was shot in Scotland in 1880, and another in...
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