The Architecture of Birds

Amer American animals appear Aristotle bank bank-swallow beak bee-eater belted kingfisher bill birds birds of prey branches breeding Brit Buffon build built burrow bush chaffinch claws clay colour composed constructed cuckoo's egg downy woodpecker dry grass eagle eggs entrance Falconida Family feathers feet female frequently ground habits hair hatched hawks heron Hist hole hollow inches insects instance Kentucky warbler kind kingfisher labour Latham lined LINN long-tailed duck male manner materials Montagu Montbeillard moss naturalists nature nearly nest nestling never observed Oiseaux Ornith pair perch picul pigeons plumage prey puffin purple martin remarkable rocks rooks roots says Wilson seems seen Selborne side similar singular soft solitary sometimes sparrows species Specimen structure swallow Sylvia Temminck thick thrush tion tree tufts twigs usually Vaillant warbler whip-poor-will wings wood woodpecker wool wren young cuckoo