Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 427
BUILDS ITS NESTWHILE FLYING By this title we do not mean that the bird buildsits entire nest while flying, but that it starts workand does a large part while on the wing. We are accustomed to think of the structure ofbirds and other forms of life as being more orless perfectly adapted to their… … THE NESTS ARE GENERALLY PLACED NEAR THE TOPOF THE BANK, OFTEN ONLY A FOOT BELOW THE SOD. and weak, exactly as in the other swallows whosenests are of the ordinary cup-like pattern. The bank swallows nest, as most of us know,is a horizontal burrow, usually in a bank of earthor sand. The most…
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