Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin beef the summer of 1879 was

the summer of 1879 was particularly wet

Tony Woodcock

Inner Temple Lane

Matthew Boulton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785

Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin beef the summer of 1879 wasTwo 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.