. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. THE CHAFFINCH. 527 prevents it from assuming such an attitude, and that the long Heron can sit as easily upon its pale green eggs as the short- limbed domestic fowl on her white eggs. Some of our common British birds build nests that can vie, in point of beauty and delicacy, with any nest made by birds of other lands. It is scarcely possible to conceive a nest which is more worthy of admiration than that of the Long-tailed Titmouse, which has already been d
. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. THE CHAFFINCH. 527 prevents it from assuming such an attitude, and that the long Heron can sit as easily upon its pale green eggs as the short- limbed domestic fowl on her white eggs. Some of our common British birds build nests that can vie, in point of beauty and delicacy, with any nest made by birds of other lands. It is scarcely possible to conceive a nest which is more worthy of admiration than that of the Long-tailed Titmouse, which has already been described; and in their own way, the. KESr OF THE CIIAFFIXCH. houses erected by the Chaffinch and Goldfinch are quite as beautiful. As there are some points of similarity in the two nests, they will be mentioned in connexion with each other. First, we will take the nest of the Chaffixch {Fringilla copilebs).. 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). London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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