School: Poll an Chapaill, Mullinahone (roll number 14181)

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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   a tuft of grass and lay thirteen eggs. Some of them would lay twenty six.
   The Chinese would lay a white egg. The Black a blue egg, the Japaneese a brown egg. All those eggs would be about the size of a bantam's egg.
   The Woodcock also makes her nest on the ground and lays four eggs.

   

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2. Bird-Lore

   

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   There are many species of birds in this locality namely the Robin, the goldfinch, the Magpie, the woodquest, the Sparrow, the Thrush, the wren, the Blackbird, the Plover, and the Pheasant.
   The Robin builds it's nest on a mossy bank and she lays about five eggs. If you touched her nest she would forsake it.
   The Sparrow builds it's nest in the eve of a thatched house or a hole in the wall. The sparrow lays about six eggs.
   The Woodquest builds it's nest on the top of a tall tree in a grove. She lays about two eggs.
   The wren builds its nest in a sgeach bush. She lays eighteen or twenty four eggs. The Pheasant builds its nest on the ground under a furze bush. She lays fourteen to sixteen eggs. The Mackpie builds

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Burke

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   16

   Address

   Kylefreaghane, Co. Tipperary