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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   feathers, and mud or clabar interwoven. She lays 5 or 6 eggs of a bluish colour.

   The nest of thrush is the same as that of the blackbirds, but the eggs have brown spots.

   The mapie's nest is just a rough structure of sticks or cipend, and her own feathers + wool or hair from the backs of animals.

   The rook's nest is a rough structure of sticks and lined with feather, wool, hair, and moss. It is built on the tops of high trees usually ash trees.

   The jackdaw's nest is made of sticks, moss, feathers, pieces of cloth, wool, hair, and almost anything the bird can pick and carry.

   The lark's nest is made of hay and grass. The seagull's nest is made of grass and feathers and very often hardly any stuff is in the nest.

   The hawk's nest is just a rough structure of sticks.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eva Buchanan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Thomas Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim