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Identifier: britishbirdsnest00kear (find matches)
Title: British birds' nests; how, where, and when to find and identify them
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Nests
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ws black. Female similar. Situation and Locality.—In crevices, crannies,under crags, and on ledges of high maritimeclifis; pretty generally round our coasts Oneobserver says that he has found its nest in aPuffin burrow, and another in a Cormorants nestat the Fame Islands. The latter is a somewhatremarkable circumstance, inasmuch as the Cormor-ants occupy a rock exclusively there. Our illus-tration is from a photograph taken on Ailsa Craig,where great numbers breed. Materials.—None ; the Qggi when laid on bare,flat rock, is often swept off by a gust of wind. Egg.—One; varying from white to huffy-white, oreven reddish-brown, spotted and blotched with large,bold and numerous markings of greyish, chestnut,reddish and blackish brown. Average size about2-9 by 187 in. Not so jioiuted as that of theGuillemot, and interior of shell greenish instead ofyellowish-white, which is the colour of all varietiesof Guillemots eggs, except those with intense greenor blue sround colours, when blown.
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RAZORBILL. 226 BRITISH BIEDS XEST8. Time.—May and June. Bemarls. — Eesident, but wandering, exceptduring the breeding season. Notes, a kind ofgrunting noise when disturbed. Local and othernames : Black-billed Auk, Marrot, Murre, RazorbillAuk, Sea Crow, Bawkie, Alk or Oke, Falk; inZetland, Hiogga. Gregarious, and a close sitter. REDBREAST. See Robin, REDPOLL, LESSER. Description of Parent Birds.—Length about fourand a quarter inches. Bill short, nearly conical,thick at the base, and brownish horn colour. Iridesdusky brown. Crown, to beyond the line of theeyes, crimson red; sides of head brown. Hinderpart of crown, nape, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark brown, the feathers being borderedwith light reddish-brown, slightly mixed with grey ;tail-coverts tinged with crimson. Wings dusky,the feathers being edged with pale brown; themiddle and greater coverts are tipped with lightreddish-brown, making two rather showy bars across.Tail slightly forked and dusky, edged outwardlywit

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