. Song birds and water fowl . case ismatched by increased skill, we may cite thenest of the Baltimore oriole. Whatever motivemay have induced this bird to adopt its elegant,pensile form of a nest, its situation at the tip-end of a slender, swaying branch, is manifestlyconducive to the utmost security from all sortsof foes; and this was not improbably the mainconsideration in deciding its location. Yet, onthe other hand, when so placed, the nest ispeculiarly unstable in its exposure to wind andrain, and demands much greater skill in itsweaving and attachment to the branch; whichmakes this nest
. Song birds and water fowl . case ismatched by increased skill, we may cite thenest of the Baltimore oriole. Whatever motivemay have induced this bird to adopt its elegant,pensile form of a nest, its situation at the tip-end of a slender, swaying branch, is manifestlyconducive to the utmost security from all sortsof foes; and this was not improbably the mainconsideration in deciding its location. Yet, onthe other hand, when so placed, the nest ispeculiarly unstable in its exposure to wind andrain, and demands much greater skill in itsweaving and attachment to the branch; whichmakes this nest one of the most remarkable andbeautiful structures of its kind. While safety and durability thus apparentlydetermine the general character and situa-tion of the land birds nests, it also evidentlysuits their convenience to place them about inthe plane of their average flight. The groundseems as inappropriate a place for a hawks orcrows nest as the summit of a tall tree for theabode of a low-flying sparrow or a ground war- 146.
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