 The cavity is proportionately large and deep, having a diameter of four and one-half inches and a depth of two. Except the base, which is composed of a few twigs and stalks of coarse plants, the nest is made entirely of soft and warm materials most elaborately...  Proceedings of the United States National Museum - Page 444by United States National Museum - 1892 - 16 lehteFull view - About this book
 | R[oderick] Mac Farlane - 1891 - 38 lehte
...materials are most elaborately matted together into a homogeneous and symmetrical whole. It is seven inches in diameter and three and a half in height....various birds, fine down of the Eider and other ducks, fine mosses and lichens, slender stems, grasses, etc., and are skillfully and artistically wrought... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1965 - 500 lehte
...large and deep, having a diameter of four and one-half 1nches anil a depth of two. Except the hase, which is composed of a few twigs and stalks of coarse...various birds, fine down of the eider and other ducks, floe mosses and lichens, slender stems, grasses, etc., and are skilfully and artistically wrought into... | |
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