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I must record a curious coincidence in natural history experience. There appeared not long since in the Morning Post some account of a toad, discovered in the unusual occupa- tion of brooding robins' eggs ! I did not see the passage but was told of it ; and should have almost felt inclined to put it down in the class of stories, generally described as "tall," had not a friend come upon an almost exactly similar incident a week or RO earlier. The difference was in this case that the toad had chosen a hedge sparrow's nest. After all any nest he could reach would give the toad just the sort of resting place it habitually seeks. Old nests, of course, are frequent resorts of many creatures. I have found mice in them, the skeleton of a stoat and more than once a nest of bumble bees.
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