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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 372

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    The birds that inhabit this district are the Robin, the Blackbird, the Thrush, the Lark, the Wren, the Sparrow, the Magpie, the yellow hammer and the Linnet.
    The birds that migrate are the swallow, the cuckoo and the corncrake. Some other birds are the curlew, the hawk, the tomtit, the peewit, the snipe, the chaffinch, the sea-gull, the water-hen, the cormorant, the c row, the swan, the pigeon, the canary the wild goose, the partridge and the bullfinch.
    How the Robin got the Red Breast. Long ago all the world was covered with snow and ice and in the far north there was just one fire which was kept going by a hunter
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      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Breda Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Virginia, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Corrigan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Virginia, Co. Cavan