Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
nest but lays her two eggs on a flat rock. The ospreys nest is a cart-load of driftwoodand all sorts of articles like bones and ropes;the humming birds is a tiny, dainty bit of softfelt covered with lichens. Between these thereare nests of all sizes, some made of basket work,others in masonry,… … THE NEST OF A CLIFF SWALLOW. Made of mud, in the shape of a chemists retort. like a chemists retort; cuckoos and mourn-ing doves nests are platforms of- sticks in treesor bushes. Orioles nests are pockets ; wood-peckers are dugouts; the marsh wrens nest isa hollow ball fastened to the reeds; the…
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