 The nests or hillocks are of the form of an obtuse cone, four feet high and four or five feet in diameter at their bases; they are constructed with mud, grass and herbage. At first they lay a floor of this kind of tempered mortar on the ground, upon which...  A Nature Wooing at Ormond by the Sea - Page 165by Willis Stanley Blatchley - 1902 - 245 pagesFull view - About this book
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...feven or eight inches in thicknefs, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one itratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a neft ; thefe are hatched, I fuppofe, by the heat of the fun ; and perhaps the vegetable fubftance mixt... | |
 | Caledonian bee - 1795 - 302 pages
...feren or eight inches in thicknefs, and then another layer of eggs j and in this manner, one ftratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a neft : thefe are hatched, I fuppofe, by the heat of the fun ; and, perhaps, the vegetable fubftances... | |
 | 1795 - 292 pages
...eight inches in.thicknefs, and then ano.' her layer of eggs ;' and in thfs. manner, one flratum, ipon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly .lay from one to t,wo hundred eggs in a neft i t:cfe are hatched, I fuppofe, by the heat of the fun ; md, perhaps, the vegetable fubfeances... | |
 | 1799 - 422 pages
...feven or eight inches in thicknefs, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner, one ftratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a neft ; thefe are hatched, i fuppofe, by the heat of the fun ; and perhaps the vegetable fubftances... | |
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...they depofite a layer of eggs, and upon this ftratum of mortar fr-ven or eight inches in tlucknefs, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one Stratum upon another, nearly to tlie top. 1 believe th?y commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in- a neit : thefe are hatched,... | |
 | 1809 - 572 pages
...or little dock, from which ascended a sloping path or road up to the edge of the meadow, where these nests were. Most of them were deserted, and the great...by the heat of the sun ; and perhaps the vegetable sub. stances mixed with the earth, being acted upon by the sun, may cause a small degree of fermentation,... | |
 | 1794 - 826 pages
...feven or eight inches in thicknefs, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one ftratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a neft ; thefe are hatched, 1 (uppofe, by the heat of the fun ; and perhaps the vegetable fubftance mixt... | |
 | Caledonian bee - 1811 - 300 pages
...or eight inches in thicknefs, and then another layer of eggs ; and in this manner, one .ftratum • upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a neft : thefe are hatched, I fuppofe, by .the heat of the fun ; and, perhaps, the vegetable fubftances... | |
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