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   “One morning when Nora Nash of the Gleann Listowel was cleaning out the cage the parrot flew away.”

   

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   “A very remarkable thing about the grouse is that when the eggs are hatched and opened...”

   

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   A very remarkable thing about the grouse is that when the eggs are hatched and opened in halves the bird places one half of the shell next to the other half in convex and concave fashion an act of instinct not practised by any other bird.

   James Kennelly

   Told by J Kennelly
   Patrick St.
   Listowel

   

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   “If you only touched the eggs in a birds nest they would know it and they would "hate" it.”

   

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   If you only touched the eggs in a birds nest they would know it and they would "hate" it. But if the young ones were in it she would not hate. The pet names for birds are "Tommy

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Donal O' Connor

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gortcurreen, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Nora Griffin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gortcurreen, Co. Kerry