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IT may be interesting to some of your readers to know of the recurrence of a strange freak on the part of a pair of linnets. Last year they selected, as the scene of their nest-building and other parental operations, the interior of a Maltese water-bottle, hung against a brick wall, at the back of the house of Capt. G. Wood, and in a sort of half yard, half garden. The bottle is of porous ware, 10 inches high, 7 inches wide at its broadest part, which is mid-way between the bottom of the neck and the base, and having an upright constricted neck 4 inches long and only 11/4 inches in diameter on the inside. In this singular receptacle the birds contentedly built, laid their eggs, and successfully reared their brood.
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VIAN-WILLIAMS, H. Singular Nesting-place of Linnets. Nature 36, 154 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036154a0
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