Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin beef Landscape view of the destruction

Landscape view of the destruction of Saponara

3rd April 1958

the summer of 1879 was particularly wet

Tony Woodcock

Also showing a proposed statue of the Duke of Wellington

Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin beef Landscape view of the destructionTwo studies of birds' nests. Figure 1, the nest of the goldfinch Carduelis carduelis containing a clutch of five eggs. Figure 2 the nest of the European robin Erithacus rubecula containing a clutch of seven eggs. Plate 3 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: 'Tab. III. Stigelliz. Planche 3. Fig, 1 du Chardonneret. Rothkehlein. Fig.