Excerpt from The Nests and Eggs of Non-Indigenous British Birds: Or Such Species That Do Not Breed Within the British Archipelago For the purposes of the present work I have examined and compared a vast number of nests and eggs, and in nearly every instance the descriptions have been made from actual specimens, in most cases carefully deduced from large and representative series.

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