Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 428
e bird chooses any low bank offirm, sandy soil by the side of a road or stream. Here (atBahia Blanca) the walls round the houses are built of har-dened mud; and I noticed that one, which inclosed a court-yard where I lodged, was bored through by round holes ina score of places. On asking the owner… … THE SAWDUST WAS BESIDE A SAWMILL, ANDFORMED ONE BANK OF A BROOK. This is a close parallel of the flicker thatrepeatedly bored through the boards of a barn.(See page 651 of Nature and Science for May,1902.) John Burroughs in his recent book, Leaf and Tendril,argues that in such experiences there is…
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