Peculiar. Nesting-places.
Mb Hinman, instructor of gunnery at Brightlingßea, states that while a 6in gun was being used there a few months ago, a Btarling's nest waa discovered in its interior, right down at the breech, It was removed. On April 19 a captain's inspection took place, and a second time a nest was discovered, and again removed. On the 21st the bird had returned for the third time, evidently with the intention of staying, for it not only built a fresh nest but deposited one egg. A, correspondent at Midhurst reports the case of a robin whioh has built a nest and laid five eggs in a clog which was banging on the inside wall of his coachhouse. The eggs were laid in five days, and in twelve days four young ones were hatched.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 15
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135Peculiar. Nesting-places. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 15
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