 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 464 pages
...sapling to build on; and in the orchard, or garden, selects a pear tree for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and as much in depth. A very complete one is now lying before me, and the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - Birds - 1831 - 372 pages
...sapling to build on ; and in the orchard, or garden, selects a pear tree for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and as much in depth. A very complete one is now lying before me, and the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - Birds - 1832 - 576 pages
...sapling to build on ; and in the orchard or garden, selects a pear tree for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and as much in depth. A very complete one is now lying before me, and the... | |
 | Church history - 1837 - 844 pages
...sapling to build on, and in the orchard or garden, selects a pear-tree for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and about as much in depth. A very complete one is now lying before me,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 434 pages
...sapling to build on, and in the orchard or garden, selects a pear-tree for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and about as much in depth. A very complete one is now lying before me,... | |
 | Birds - 1842 - 172 pages
...sapling to build on, and in the orchard or garden selects a pear-tree for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and about as much in depth. The outer coat of a very complete one was formed... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1834 - 476 pages
...Tfeome, near its mouth, where I was boisterous voyage, reached home in safety. THE HUMMING-BIRD'S NEST. The humming-bird usually builds her nest on the upper...seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter and as much in depth. — Though they usually build on trees, their nests... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pages
...sapling to build on, and in the orchard or garden selects a pear-tree for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, andas much in depth. A very complete one is now lying before me, and the... | |
 | William Jardine - 1845 - 424 pages
...rank stalk, or weed, in the garden. In the woods it often chooses a white oak sapling, and the branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and as much in depth ; the outward coat is formed of small pieces of a species... | |
 | Wonders - Birds - 1848 - 496 pages
...build on ; and in the orchard or garden selects a pear-tree for the same purpose ; the branch chosen, is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and as much in depth. The base of the nest is continued round the stem of... | |
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... for that purpose. The branch is seldom more than ten feet from the ground. The nest is about an inch in diameter, and as much in depth. A very complete one... 
