School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

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1. Bird-Lore

   

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   The blackbird, the robin, swallow starling, yellow-hammer, chaffinch, thrush, lark, corncrake, plover, patridge and the crow are the birds found in my district. Ths swallow and the corncrake migrates. The blackbird and robin build their nests in bushes. The swallow builds her nest under the ives of houses and in the tatch of houses. The plover builds its nest in the ditches and the lark in high grass in the fields and also the patridge. The snipe makes its nest in drains and in bogs. The crow builds its nest on the top of trees. The cuckoo comes to this country during the end of April or the beginning of May and goes away about the end of summer, The cuckoo builds no nest it lays its eggs in some other birds nest and then the other bird hatches the eggs and rears the young cuckoos. The colour of the blackbirds eggs are of a sort of a blue colour with spots on them The robin, the blackbird, and other birds make their nests of wool and hay and moss. The crow builds its nest of small sticks, the swallow makes its nest of mud, The magpie makes its nest on the top of a tree and makes its nest of moss and sticks. If boys rob nests they are told they would get a sore hand or foot. The hawk makes its nest on the

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Edward Stapleton

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gortaniddan, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   John Waddick

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Address

   Drumgill, Co. Tipperary