. Birds and nature . st broken up intosmall pieces and dried in the sun. It isestimated that one thousand full-sizednuts will produce upwards of twenty-fivegallons of oil. The oil is a white, solidsubstance at ordinary temperature, witha peculiar rather disagreeable odor. Un-der pressure it spreads into a liquid anda solid, the latter being extensively usedin the manufacture of candles. Within late years the oil has alsobeen manufactured into cocoa-nut but-ter, retaining, however, in a greater orless degree a distant flavor of the monkeys and orang-outangs arevery expert in destroying
. Birds and nature . st broken up intosmall pieces and dried in the sun. It isestimated that one thousand full-sizednuts will produce upwards of twenty-fivegallons of oil. The oil is a white, solidsubstance at ordinary temperature, witha peculiar rather disagreeable odor. Un-der pressure it spreads into a liquid anda solid, the latter being extensively usedin the manufacture of candles. Within late years the oil has alsobeen manufactured into cocoa-nut but-ter, retaining, however, in a greater orless degree a distant flavor of the monkeys and orang-outangs arevery expert in destroying the toughouter covering of the cocoa-nut, thoughquite two inches thick. They insert theirteeth into the tapering end of the nut,I where the shell is very uneven, hold it1 firmly with the right foot, and with thei left tear the covering to pieces. Thenthrusting a finger into one of the na-tural apertures they pierce a hole, drinkthe milk, break the shell on some hardobject and eat the kernel. 71 THE BOHEMIAN HB Bohemian Wax-wing isinteresting for its gipsy-likewanderings, one winter visit-ing one country, next seasonanother, often in enormous flocks, andusually with intervals of many years,so that in former times their appear-ance was regarded as sure forebodingsof war and pestilence, their arrivalbeing dreaded as much as that of acomet. Another interesting feature ofits history is the fact that for a longtime this familiar bird eluded thesearch of the zoologist. Its breedinghabits, and even the place where itbreeds, were unknown thirty yearsago, until finally discovered by in Lapland, after a diligentsearch during four summers. It isalso called the European or CommonSilk-tail, and is an inhabitant both ofnorthern Europe and of NorthAmerica, though in America the CedarBird is more often met with. In thenorthern portions of Europe, birch andpine forests constitute its favoriteretreats, and these it seldom quits,except when driven by unusualseverity of weather
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