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“I went out to-day and I found a blackbird’s nest empty, and u was made of mud, lined first with skeleton leaves and then with fine straw. Outside was thatched with bark and dried grass. Right at • the bottom was thatched with thistle leaves. It was built in prongs at the end of a branch. At the foot of a big pine tree I found an eggshell broken in two. It was blue with black spots towards the larger end. I suppose the bird had come out of its shell and then pushed it out of the nest.” • —Muriel Butler. “We had fi holiday to-day and another girl and I went for a wal2 and found eight birds’ nests. We have a lot of chickens coming out in our incubator, and I like watching them break through the shell. . . they ar'e such pretty balls of yellow fluff.” —Moira Jones.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12295, 14 November 1925, Page 16
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151OPEN EYES New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12295, 14 November 1925, Page 16
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