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Muscovite mica
Piece of muscovite mica, the most common mineral of the mica family, a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium.
PEZPH : 1994.247
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Nest of black cap
Nest of black cap with 4 mottled eggs. Collected in Norfolk in 1926.
PEZPH : 1975.29
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Nest of chaffinch
Nest of chaffinch with three mottled eggs (2 missing), 12 mm in length. Have '12' written in pencil on them. Collected at Salisbury Plain on 1 May 1911.
PEZPH : 1975.30
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Nest of chaffinch
Nest of chaffinch containing 5 eggs. Two of the eggs have '5.11.13' written on them in pencil. Collected at Forfarshire, now renamed Angus, in 1912.
PEZPH : 1975.16
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Nest of chaffinch
Nest of chaffinch containing 2 eggs and shell fragments. Collected at Clonmel, County Tipperary, on 17 May 1912.
PEZPH : 1975.15
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Nest of coal tit
Nest of coal tit containing 14 eggs (1 missing). 7 whitish eggs, 7 mm in length.
PEZPH : 1975.17
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Nest of garden warbler
Nest of garden warbler with 8 mottled eggs.
PEZPH : 1975.25
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Nest of goldcrest
Nest of goldcrest with 7 whitish eggs, 7 mm in length. Collected at Salisbury Plain on 20 April 1914.
PEZPH : 1975.21
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Nest of golden oriole
Nest of golden oriole with 3 eggs, built around a triangular set of branches.The nest has been sawn off so that the three branches are still within the nest. Collected in Holland on 25 May 1911.
PEZPH : 1975.12
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Nest of goldfinch
Nest of goldfinch with 3 eggs. Collected at Clonmel, County Tipperary, on 17 May 1912.
PEZPH : 1975.13
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Nest of greenfinch
Greenfinch nest containing 5 eggs, three of which have '7' written in pencil on them. Collected in Glasgow on 8 May 1912.
PEZPH : 1975.11
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Nest of hedge sparrow
Nest of hedge sparrow with 5 blue eggs, three of which have '5/5/13' written in pencil on them. Collected in Bulford, Wiltshire on 26 May 1913.
PEZPH : 1975.24
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Nest of linnet
Nest of Linnet containing 1 egg. Collected at Salisbury Plain on 26 April 1912.
PEZPH : 1975.6
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Nest of marsh tit
Nest of marsh tit, made of grass and rabbit fur, with 4 eggs, though a note on file says that thre are only three.
PEZPH : 1975.22
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Nest of nightingale
The nest of a Nightingale with 4 eggs.
PEZPH : 1975.2
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Nest of reed-bunting
Nest of reed bunting with 3 eggs, 15 mm in length. Have '2/5/13' written on them in pencil. Collected in Bulford, Wiltshire in 1913. There is a fourth white egg with black lines in the nest which has '18.5.13' written on pencil on it, possibly a yellow bunting's egg.
PEZPH : 1975.20
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