School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)

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   The sky-lark.
   She is of a brown colour with black streaks on her wings. Her throat is of a white colour and there are brown spots on her breast. The sky-lark builds her nest in March in a hollow in the ground. The nest is lined with dry grass. She lays 4 or 5 greenish eggs with brown spots on them.

   The rook.
   A large bird of a black colour. Builds her nest on a high tree, of sticks and earth and moss and grass inside. The eggs are of a bluish green colour.

   The Cuckoo.
   A bird something like the hawk, grey feathers on top and white on the breast. The cuckoo comes to Ireland in April. She builds no nest, but lays her egg on the ground, and then takes it to a nest of some bird, whose eggs are the same colour, when the the bird is out of the nest. When the young birds come out, the young cuckoo throws the other young birds out of the nest. The mother continues to feed the young cuckoo.
   The old cuckoos leave Ireland about the end of July.

   The missel thrush.
   He builds his nest in a tree. The nest is made of dried grass, moss and wool. She lays from 4 to 6 eggs. The eggs are of a pale-green colour, with brown dots on them. She hatches the eggs for a forthnight.

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. seanchas ainmhithe (~1,185)
         1. seanchas na n-éan (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Walsh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Joseph Walsh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Mín Tine Thoir, Co. Chorcaí