. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 622 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. Eagle are very useful for the piirpose of respiration, but the bird has apparently little or no olfactory sensibilities. The stench that arises from an inhabited Eagle's nest is quite beyond the power of description, for the young Eagles themselves are not the sweetest beings in the world, and their evil odour is supplemented by that which arises from the refuse food that is suffered to putrefy in the very nest. There are very many
. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 622 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. Eagle are very useful for the piirpose of respiration, but the bird has apparently little or no olfactory sensibilities. The stench that arises from an inhabited Eagle's nest is quite beyond the power of description, for the young Eagles themselves are not the sweetest beings in the world, and their evil odour is supplemented by that which arises from the refuse food that is suffered to putrefy in the very nest. There are very many sea-birds which hatch their young on the shelves of precipitous rocks, and of them I have chosen for an example the bird which is called the Noddy (Anous stolidits). It is a species of Tern, and has long been celebrated among sailors for the ease with which it can be captured, especially if the daylight has THE XODDY. The Noddy mostly chooses for its nesting-place some lofty precipice, and generally lays its eggs upon a shelf of the rock. Sometimes but rarely, it takes a fancy to some low and thick bush, and in any case is but an indifferent architect. Often. 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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