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THE double bird's nest I send you was found some time ago in a stack of hop-poles when they were taken down for use. The lower nest is clearly a blackbird's, and in it, below the lining, were two blackbird's eggs when found. The upper nest (or lining?) is, I am informed, that of a pied-wagtail, with four eggs, and also the egg of a cuckoo. It is suggested the blackbird was disturbed (by a cuckoo?), and a wagtail, assuming the nest, completed it in its own fashion, the cuckoo therein laying its egg. (The same cuckoo which had disturbed the blackbird?)
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CONSTABLE, F. Blackbird's Nest appropriated by a Wagtail. Nature 56, 248 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056248f0
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