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School: St. Anne's (B.)

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Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Mac an t Saoir
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    The names of the birds that I know are the blackbird, the thrush, the sparrow, the crow the robin, the wren, the cuckoo, the gold lunch, the bull flinch, the pigeon the tom-lit, the willie wag-tail the chaffimeh, the blue tit, and the swallow.
    Each of these birds lay from three to eight eggs, except the wren which lays from fifteen to twenty. The thrush builds her nest in a high tree and the colour of her eggs is blush.
    The blackbird (builds)
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Leo Kearans
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisnalea, Co. Cavan