CONTENTS. Page 1 Analogy from Insects and Quadrupeds Roosting of the Blackbird, Thrush, and Starling. The swallow a favourite of the poets Disliked by some people, and prevented from building The chimney-swallow Sometimes builds in wells and coal-pits Nests on garden-shears, and on a stuffed owl Illustrated from mason-bees CHAPTER VI.-MASON-BIRDS, continued. The flamingo Its singular pyramidal nest Other accounts, by Catesby and Descourtilz The masonry of the crested penguin Its nest similar to that of the alligator Bartram's account corrected by Descourtilz The masonry of the song-thrush Fanciful accounts, by Aldrovand, Pliny, and Aristotle Accounts by Turner, Montagu, and Jennings The toucan The tomtit hews out holes to nestle in The wryneck and the nuthatch A nuthatch's endeavours to escape from a cage Illustrated by the proceedings of gall-flies and of rats Wilson's history of a wounded woodpecker |