. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 167.—Impeyan Pheasant. Strangers traveling through the country have been as-tonished at the singular mounds found in various places,formed of vast accumulations of refuse, seemingly thrownup by human hands. They are really the nests of these SOME SCRATCHING BIRDS 195 peculiar birds, whichhatch their eggs in in-cubators instead of sittingupon them. The mound(Fig. 170) is formed in thespring and is of pyram-idal shape, the birdsmaking it by standingwith their backs to theplace selected and hurlingrefuse at it, which theygrasp in their powerful
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 167.—Impeyan Pheasant. Strangers traveling through the country have been as-tonished at the singular mounds found in various places,formed of vast accumulations of refuse, seemingly thrownup by human hands. They are really the nests of these SOME SCRATCHING BIRDS 195 peculiar birds, whichhatch their eggs in in-cubators instead of sittingupon them. The mound(Fig. 170) is formed in thespring and is of pyram-idal shape, the birdsmaking it by standingwith their backs to theplace selected and hurlingrefuse at it, which theygrasp in their powerfulfeet, so that they notonly scratch, but of the heaps arefour feet in height. Themass soon ferments, pro-ducing heat, and in itthe eggs of the birds arelaid. They are coveredup fifteen inches deep, bein^ten inches apart, an opening.
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