. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1164 Home Nature-Study Course. Height from the ground — About eight or ten feet; in the lower fork of a beech tree. Materials used — Grass, moss and very fine strips of bark well woven and matted together and coated on the outside with bits of lichen of nearly the same color as the mottled gray trunk of the beech tree in which it was built. Shape —
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1164 Home Nature-Study Course. Height from the ground — About eight or ten feet; in the lower fork of a beech tree. Materials used — Grass, moss and very fine strips of bark well woven and matted together and coated on the outside with bits of lichen of nearly the same color as the mottled gray trunk of the beech tree in which it was built. Shape — Symmetrically circular, with walls quite uniform in thickness, which is about an inch or a little less. The floor is thin; the walls are about two inches high and the inner depth is nearly as great. Lining — Fine grass and strips of the soft fibers apparently pulled from the trunks of cedar " Now comes the graybeard of the north; The forests bare their rugged breasts To every wind that wanders forth, And, in their arms, the lonely nests That housed the birdlings months ago Are egged with flakes of drifted ; —Henry 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 New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?]
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