. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 562 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. fortable place, for Mr. "Waterton mentions that on one occasion, when he had built a neat little brick house for a duck, and fur- nished it with dry hay for a nest, a Water Hen took possession of it, and the duck had to find a home Water Hea and Neat. Sometimes the nest is made on a branch, and in that case the bird selects low bough which overhangs the water. I have found several nests thus placed, and in on
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 562 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. fortable place, for Mr. "Waterton mentions that on one occasion, when he had built a neat little brick house for a duck, and fur- nished it with dry hay for a nest, a Water Hen took possession of it, and the duck had to find a home Water Hea and Neat. Sometimes the nest is made on a branch, and in that case the bird selects low bough which overhangs the water. I have found several nests thus placed, and in one case the only method of getting at the nest was to enter the water and swim round to it. It is a large and rudely-made nest, and from its size appears to be more conspicuous than is really the case. When it is placed on a bough, the twigs of the same branch often dip into the wa- ter, and the nest looks like a bunch of weeds and other dSbris that have floated down the stream and been arrested by the branch. The similitude is increased by a curious habit of the 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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