Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin beef Inner Temple Lane

Inner Temple Lane

3rd April 1958

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

looking to camera

Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin beef Inner Temple LaneTwo 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.