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
| 1793 - 542 pages
...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... | |
| 460 pages
...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... | |
| 1793 - 624 pages
...feven or eight inches in thicknefs, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one Itratutn upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to hundred eggs in a neft : thefe ate and juft behind their fore-legs or arms, two ^ hatched, I iuppofe,... | |
| William Bingley - 1821 - 374 pages
...floor of these substances, upon the ground; on this they had deposited a layer of eggs, and upon that a stratum of mortar, seven or eight inches in thickness,...manner, one stratum upon another, nearly to the top. Mr. Bartram supposes that the eggs are hatched by the heat of the sun; and that the female alligator... | |
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