. British birds. Birds. 198 BHITISH BIRDS. [vol. XV. moved. After several attempts she gave this up and endeavoured to roll the three to the one. The fact that they kept sliding back into the nesting cup frustrated this effort, and ended in her sitting in despair between the one egg and the three. After several minutes of despondency she made another assault on the single egg, finally hoisting. Merlin : Fig. 6. Hen alighting in middle of e^ {Photographed by W. Rowan.) it out of its bed successfully, when it was rolled home without further trouble. For a number of days the weather was extremely
. British birds. Birds. 198 BHITISH BIRDS. [vol. XV. moved. After several attempts she gave this up and endeavoured to roll the three to the one. The fact that they kept sliding back into the nesting cup frustrated this effort, and ended in her sitting in despair between the one egg and the three. After several minutes of despondency she made another assault on the single egg, finally hoisting. Merlin : Fig. 6. Hen alighting in middle of e^ {Photographed by W. Rowan.) it out of its bed successfully, when it was rolled home without further trouble. For a number of days the weather was extremely hot. Both birds showed great depression, sitting with gaping mouth and tail and wings drooping (Fig. 8). During the intense heat the hen would sometimes stand, panting, over the eggs for an hour with wings hanging (Fig. 9) as though. 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 London, Witherby & Co
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