Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
this,the rude platform of coarse twigs and stemswhich the cuckoo throws together for her eggsand young seems hardly a birds nest at all.The kingfishers nest is a bed of fish bones atthe end of a burrow in a sand bank. Thinkof the toil of this bird in digging a tunnel sixor eight feet long. If we… … THE NEST OF A ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW. It is frequently, but not always, in a stone wall. should want it furnished with something morecomfortable than a bed of sharp fish bones ! The killdeer plover gives herself much lesstrouble by simply scooping out a handful ofsand for her eggs, while the night…
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