Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
sor bushes. Orioles nests are pockets ; wood-peckers are dugouts; the marsh wrens nest isa hollow ball fastened to the reeds; the oven-birds is in the form of a tiny Eskimo hut or anold-fashioned oven. It is almost unthinkable that a bird shouldbuild a nest on the water. Yet that is exactlywhat the… … THE FLOATING NEST OF A PIED-BILLED GREBE. io34 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Sept., grebes, but their nests are much alike, some-times moored to the reeds but usually floatingfreely on the water. One of the prettiest of all birds nests is ourcommon phcebes. We can find one undernearly every…
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