Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 426
ame way.Night-flying insects sleep in the daytime. But thehouse-fly, being a day-flying insect, sleeps atnight, except when it is awakened by artificiallight.—Dr. L. O. Howard. Here is an excellent field for observation, whereeven very youthful eyes may add to scientificknowledge. A pocket electric… … YOUNG OSTRICHES AND EGGS IN A BOX PEN. old birds sit on eight to ten eggs, which are very large,weighing from three to four pounds each. It takes aboutsix weeks for the eggs to hatch. Sometimes when it rains the eggs are taken from thenest and put in large incubators, as the ostrich will not siton…
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