. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 86 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. of already existing cavities, and yet to those islands the Petrels resort by thousands, for the purpose of breeding. The birds set resolutely to work, and delve little burrows into the sandy soil, seldom digging deeper than a foot, ajud, in fact, only making the • cavity sufficiently large to conceal themselves and their Petrel. Each bird lays a single egg, which is white, and of small di- mensions. The young are funny-loo
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 86 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. of already existing cavities, and yet to those islands the Petrels resort by thousands, for the purpose of breeding. The birds set resolutely to work, and delve little burrows into the sandy soil, seldom digging deeper than a foot, ajud, in fact, only making the • cavity sufficiently large to conceal themselves and their Petrel. Each bird lays a single egg, which is white, and of small di- mensions. The young are funny-looking objects, and resemble puffs of white down rather than nestlings. The parent attends to its young with great assiduity, feeding it with the oleaginous fluid which is secreted in such quantities by the digestive organs of this bird. So large indeed is the amount of oil, that in some parts of the world the natives make the Stormy Petrel into a lamp, by the simple process of drawing a wick through its body. The oil soon rises into the wick, and burns as freely as in any. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). New York : Harper & Brothers
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