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   and light sticks and lines it with wool and horse hair. It lays five eggs. The eggs are of a separate colour with brown spots. It hatches for three weeks.
   The Sally-Picker builds in a bolt-hole of a gate or in a hole in a wall with bits of moss and wool and lays five white eggs with red spots.
   The Owl builds in an old castle or in a hole i a poplar tree. The nest is made of a few sticks. It lays 5-6 eggs of a white colour. It hatches for one month.
   The Curlew builds in long grass or heather with a few leaves. It lays four eggs of greyish green and hatches for one month.
   The Snipe builds in a swamp or in a tuft of rushes. It builds its nest with rushes and straws and sticks. It lays four brown effs and hatches for one month.
   The Kingfisher builds in a hole in a wall with sticks and sand and snail boxes and fish bones and lines it with moss and the nest is as hard as a rock. It lays from six to eight pure white eggs. It hatches for three weeks.
   The rain bird (or golden wren) builds in a fir tree with moss and arches it across. It lays from seven to eight white eggs with red spots. It hatches for one month.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alphonsus G. O' Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Monktown, Co. Meath

   Informant

   John Byrd

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Farm-labourer

   Address

   Kentstown, Co. Meath