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. 1910 Excerpt: ...nearly all the diurnal birds of prey (such as eagles, falcons, hawks, kites, harriers, vultures, and buzzards), besides many others. It is perhaps rather an excess of courtesy to include some of these birds amongst the makers of basket-work; their nests are commonly quite coarsely and roughly made, the best of them ...
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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. 1910 Excerpt: ...nearly all the diurnal birds of prey (such as eagles, falcons, hawks, kites, harriers, vultures, and buzzards), besides many others. It is perhaps rather an excess of courtesy to include some of these birds amongst the makers of basket-work; their nests are commonly quite coarsely and roughly made, the best of them being feebly suggestive of those carelessly constructed wicker trays which are used in some countries for carrying fruit and fish; while others are mere faggots, thrown together with very little attempt at arrangement. Such structures can scarcely be called nests at all, and it is fortunate that in the case of the larger birds of prey we have another term to apply to them. This is the word "aerie" or "eyry," which is generally used when speaking of the loftily situated nest of an eagle. The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetus) usually makes his eyry on a rocky platform high on the face of a precipice in some wild mountainous district, often below an overhanging NOTICE OF TENANCY crag, so that it can be neither seen nor approached from above. There he piles up a heap of sticks, some of them of a considerable size and an inch or more in thickness. The nest is a very large one, often fully five feet in diameter, and as the birds utilize the same eyry year after year, and add to it in each successive season, it may attain to an enormous bulk, some old nests containing, it is stated, as much as two cartloads of materials! As the latter are stout and unpliable it is obvious that the bird could do very little in the way of weaving them together, and there is practically no attempt at anything of the kind, the sticks being merely laid across one another and holding together by their very roughness and irregularity. The hollow of the nest ...
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Good. No Jacket. Hardback, pictorial spine and front board. 163pp, 16pp. Frontis. Illus. Extremities slightly worn. Occasional foxing and grubby marking to contents. Previous owner's details to title page, with further details to front pastedown. Private ownership. (ar6)
