This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...and hides it; the centre of a bunch of rushes, or under a tuft of heather. Personally, I have only seen it in situations of the two former kinds. It is very sparingly lined with a few blades of dead grass. The bird has a habit of scratching out several spare nesting-sites not far from the one adopted. When placed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...and hides it; the centre of a bunch of rushes, or under a tuft of heather. Personally, I have only seen it in situations of the two former kinds. It is very sparingly lined with a few blades of dead grass. The bird has a habit of scratching out several spare nesting-sites not far from the one adopted. When placed amongst an abundant growth of coarse marsh grass, the nest is not easy to find, and the best plan for the student to adopt is to go out early in the morning, when a heavy dew will invariably enable him to trace its whereabouts. The eggs, four in number, are easily distinguished by their buff ground colour and bold markings. ROCK DOVE. Whilst in the Hebrides last summer, I was, during a spell of calm weather, able to explore several caves on the Atlantic seaboard and examine numbers of Rock Doves' nests therein at leisure. In one quite small and dome-like cavern I found every available ledge utilised, and quantities of building material lying on the floor of the cave told of impossibly narrow shelves of rock above having been tried as lodgments for a nest. When Odin, the Viking king, leapt at a bound from the famous seal-clubbing rocks of Hysgier, some eight or nine miles to the west of the Outer Hebrides, in order to escape the fury of his irate queen, and alighted upon the shores of North Uist, his heels, according to tradition, smote the ground so sharply that he broke chimney holes in the roofs of a couple of sea-hewn caves. I visited the bottoms of both these pits, and found a number of Rock Doves' nests, from which the owners thereof dashed in great haste, a very solicitous mother Rock Pipit, and ample evidences that a pair of disappointed Bavens roosted therein. My friend, Hector H. Mackenzie, of Balelone, kindly acted the part of guide to th...
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Very good-condition. Book. Octavo (8vo). Ornithology; birds; England; xvi, 149 pages of text; 24cm; green hardcover cloth binding is very faded; pictorial gilt decoration; top edge gilt; frontis. photo; illus. from photos listed p. xv-xvi; American publisher label laid over title page imprint. Richard Kearton (1862-1928).