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Show oeen- sngntiy covered witn Tinea grasses, and that the nest contained four blackbird's eggs bluish green with mottled ends. The two thrush's eggs had disappeared. They could not be found at the foot of the wall below the nest, but there was found on a green above the wall the broken egg of a song thrush. When I discovered the nest part of Its outer wall was slightly torn, as if a cat had climbed up the ivy and endeavored to claw out the bird then sitting. Is it possible that the thrush may have been scared away and the nest taken over by a blackbird and adapted to her requirements? require-ments? None of my friends, versed In the habits of birds, ever heard of a similar case. Edinburgh Scotsman. BLACKBIRD IN THRUSH'S NEST Correspondent of Scottish Newspaper Calls Attention to Remarkable Incident In-cident He Has Observed. Last week I discovered In the Ivy on a sunk wall In my garden a nest which had all the characteristics of a thrush's nest, with plastered lining only, and which contained two eggs, pule blue with small black spots the eggs of a song thrush, writes a correspondent. corre-spondent. Later on I noticed a bird sitting on the nest. Only the head was visible, hut It appeared to me that the bird was a hen blackbird and not a thrush. It was some days before be-fore I found the bird off the nest, when on looking In, I discovered that tbe, plastered Xmlas. of the cest Uad |