nidification

• For some time after they appear the hirundines in general pay no attention to the business of nidification, but play and sport about, either to recruit from the fatigue of their journey, if they do migrate at all, or else that their blood may recover its true tone and texture after it has been so long benumbed by the severities of winter. —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
• But why did not your correspondent determine the place of its nidification, whether on rocks, cliffs, or trees? —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
• For I well remember, after that dreadful winter 1739-40, that cold north-east winds continued to blow on through April and May, and that these kind of birds (what few remained of them) did not depart as usual, but were seen lingering about till the beginning of June The best authority that we can have for the nidification of the birds above-mentioned in any district, is the testimony of faunists that have written professedly the natural history of particular countries. —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
• & E. no. 560 bis Tytler's Willow-Warbler, as yet a rare bird in collections, and which appears only to straggle down to the plains of Upper India during the cold season, was found by Captain Cock breeding at Sonamerg (9400 feet elevation) in the Sindh Valley, Cashmere, in June Mr. Brooks, who discriminated the bird, said of it and its nidification:--"In plumage resembling P. viridanus_, but of a richer and deeper olive; it is entirely without the 'whitish wing-bar,' which is always present in viridanus_, unless in very abraded plumage. —  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
• Still we have no information as to its nidification, and the only egg of the species that I possess was extracted from the oviduct of a female shot by Mr. Davison on the 26th of March, 1874, near Tavoy in Tenasserim. —  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1

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