. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. THE SWALLOW DICTUM. 245. The Swallow Dicseum tion, though the plain black and white of a wood engraving can give but little idea of its full beauty. In color it is nearly pure >7hite, being made of the cotton-like down which accompanies and defends the seeds of many plants, and this material is so art- fully woven that the nest almost looks aS if it were made from a piece of very white cloth. It is always purse-like in form, though its shape is slightly
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. THE SWALLOW DICTUM. 245. The Swallow Dicseum tion, though the plain black and white of a wood engraving can give but little idea of its full beauty. In color it is nearly pure >7hite, being made of the cotton-like down which accompanies and defends the seeds of many plants, and this material is so art- fully woven that the nest almost looks aS if it were made from a piece of very white cloth. It is always purse-like in form, though its shape is slightly variable, and is suspended by the upper por- tion to the twigs at the very summit of the tree. Generally it hangs its nest upon the parasitic plant which has already been mentioned, but it often selects the Casuarinae, or the delicate twigs of the myall or weeping acacia for that purpose. The av- erage number of eggs is five, and their color is grayish-white thickly powdered with small brown specks. Their length is about three quarters of an inch, and their breadth rather less than half an 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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