EGGS.
1. Rock Pipit. 2. Cormorant. 3. Creeper.
4. Turtle Dove. 5. Shore Lark. 6. Gannet.
7. Quail. 8. Oyster-catcher. 9. Cole Tit.
THE ROCK PIPIT.
Ledges or crevices of rocks near the sea-shore are the favourite building-places of this bird. It collects such materials as dry grasses of various kinds, and seaweed, with an inner lining of fine grass, and occasionally horsehair. Its eggs number four or five, of a grey ground colour, occasionally slightly tinged with green. The spots are variable in shade, being sometimes greyish-brown, at others reddish; the underlying ones are always light grey. The spots are small, and more crowded at the larger end.
THE CORMORANT.
Rocky coasts are chosen by the Cormorant, which builds an ample nest of sticks, seaweed, and coarse grass on some ledge or shelf of sea cliff. Her eggs number from four to six, of a chalky-white colour, varied with pale blue or greenish tinge, which is really the colour of the proper shell, the white being only a rough coat.