. Field, forest and farm; things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers. Natural history; Agriculture. BIRDS' NESTS 307 the structure into a sort of hemispherical bowl fastened to the wall and having a narrow mouth at the top to allow the bird to squeeze through. Bits of straw embedded in this masonry of earth serve to give it greater solidity. Finally, the in- side is upholstered with a quantity of fine feathers. "The chimney-swallow chooses a similar situation for its nest and uses the same building-materials, but the nest its
. Field, forest and farm; things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers. Natural history; Agriculture. BIRDS' NESTS 307 the structure into a sort of hemispherical bowl fastened to the wall and having a narrow mouth at the top to allow the bird to squeeze through. Bits of straw embedded in this masonry of earth serve to give it greater solidity. Finally, the in- side is upholstered with a quantity of fine feathers. "The chimney-swallow chooses a similar situation for its nest and uses the same building-materials, but the nest itself takes a differ- ent form. Instead of a hemi- spherical structure entered by a very small opening, it builds a cup-shaped nest, of no great depth and wide-open at the top. '' Swallows like to live together in large numbers, so that their nests are sometimes found touch- ing one another in colonies of Nest of a swaiiow several hundreds under the same cornice. Each pair recognizes unerringly its own belongings and respects scrupulously the property of others, in re- turn for like respect paid to its own. There is among them a deep sense of solidarity, and they render mutual aid with no less intelligence than zeal. "Sometimes it chances that a nest has hardly been finished when it crumbles to pieces, the mortar used having been of poor quality, or else the masons, with injudicious haste, having had too little patience to let one course dry before laying another on top of it. At the news of this mishap neighbors of both. 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 Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Bicknell, Florence Constable, tr. New York, The Century Co.
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