. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 78 HOMES WITHOUT HAND^. ter, splashes furiously for a few seconds, emerges with a small fish in its mouth, and then returns to land. Sometimes it seeks again the perch from which it descended, and then, throwing in the air the fish, which has all the while been held across the beak, catches it dextrously head downward, swallows it with a few eager gulps, and then looks out for another victim. Some-. Eingfisher. times it darts with lightning spped along the
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 78 HOMES WITHOUT HAND^. ter, splashes furiously for a few seconds, emerges with a small fish in its mouth, and then returns to land. Sometimes it seeks again the perch from which it descended, and then, throwing in the air the fish, which has all the while been held across the beak, catches it dextrously head downward, swallows it with a few eager gulps, and then looks out for another victim. Some-. Eingfisher. times it darts with lightning spped along the bank, and, with a quick flash of the azure plumage, settles for a moment upon the bank, looks cautiously round, and then pops swiftly into a little hole. Into this hole we will follow the bird. She always chooses her residence by the water side, and selects for nidifica- tion the deserted hole of some quadrupedal burrower. I have even seen a Kingfisher's nest made in the side of a tiny riVulet across which a child could step, and which served to conduct the drainings of an upper to a lower 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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