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BIRDS, though almost always adapting themselves to circumstances in the use of materials, are frequently, even in the country, very eccentric in their choice of a place for their nests. I have seen a blackcap's nest built of the ordinary materials, in an open flower-pot standing on the top of a garden wall. Apparently there was no possible reason for this, there being plenty of hedges and banks hard by. But in the neighbourhood of London birds may be allowed an excuse for their eccentricities.
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W., C. Birds' Nests. Nature 2, 189 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002189b0
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