School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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- (continued from previous page)tell us that when Our Lord was being crowned with thorns the robin tried to take them out with his beak and while engaged in this work a drop of blood fell from Our Lord's forehead on his breast.
She usually builds on the sides of banks or down lanes. She lays three or four eggs which are of a blue colour.
- The following is a list of birds most commonly seen in this district. The robin, thrush, blackbird, sparrow, wren, lark, yellow hammer, stone chatter, goldfinch, chaffinch, wagtail, crow, jackdaw, curlew, plover, wild duck, wild geese, water hen, cuckoo, corncrake, swallow, sand martin, snipe, wood-pigeon, hawk, owl, sea-gull, partridge, pheasant, magpie, starling.
Some of these migrate to other countries. The cuckoo corncrake, swallow, and sand martins come to this country in April to spend the summer with us and migrate to other countries in the months of August and September. The curlew, wild duck(continues on next page) - Collector
- Frank Reid
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killalea, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- D. Reid
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Killalea, Co. Westmeath
