The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 38
refrom the ground. Authorities differ as to whether the femaleplasters herself in for protection from enemiesor whether it is done by the male to prevent herleaving her nest before her egg is hatched. Theplastering takes two or three days, and a holeonly an inch wide and four or five inches longis… … MOTHER RHINOCEROS-HORNBILL SEALED IN HER NEST OF MUD. Only a small opening is left, out of which she can put her bill totake food from her mate. 22 BIRD TALKS
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