The little miners excavate with their forefeet, which are strongly built and furnished with a fringe of stiff bristles; they work with wonderful rapidity, and the sand thrown out beneath their bodies issues in continuous streams.
The Kailtas build wigwams in a conical shape--as all tribes on the Trinity do--but they excavate no cellars.
At the bottom of a shaft, about six feet deep, they excavate a vault, in which the corpse is placed, after having first been tied up in a blanket.
The houses of the Eurocs and Cahrocs 'are sometimes constructed on the level earth, but oftener they excavate a round cellar, four or five feet deep, and twelve or fifteen feet in diameter.
The top stone of both was missing, but I found them near by, and determined immediately to excavate the parts that were buried, and carry the whole away; but it was a more difficult business than that of getting out the beams.
We must remember that it is impossible to excavate even to a slight depth, except in some parts of the more southerly front, where the ground rises on a gentle slope.
The miner should never excavate the low-lying plain, nor one which is perfectly level, unless it be in some mountain, and rarely should he mine in the other kinds of plains.
In the fall, these birds excavate fresh holes to use as winter roosts (Kilham 1962).
Nest: Mountain chickadees usually nest in natural cavities or abandoned woodpecker holes, and probably do not excavate their own cavities if suitable ones are available (Bent 1946).
Nest: These woodpeckers most commonly excavate nest holes in dead limbs of living trees.
White-headed woodpeckers usually excavate a new nest cavity every year and often excavate several holes before selecting one to nest in (Bent 1939).
They usually excavatetheir own cavities, but will use natural cavities or nest boxes.
They generally excavate new cavities each year in the same tree, but do not usually use cavities of other birds or reuse old cavities (Lawrence 1967).
Both prefer to excavatenear the tops of dead trees in fairly open timber stands.
Nest: Red-breasted nuthatches will excavate their own cavity if a natural cavity or woodpecker hole is not available or to their liking (de Kiriline 1952).
Nest: Red-headed woodpeckers most commonly excavate holes in the trunks of dead trees.
They usuallyexcavate holes in ponderosa pine, but live and dead oaks of various species, sycamore, cottonwood, and willow are also used for nests.
They occasionally nest in natural cavities or deserted holes of woodpeckers, but commonly excavate their own nest cavity in decaying wood of dead trunks or limbs of deciduous trees (Bent 1946).
These woodpeckers may excavate new holes each year, or use old nest sites.
Ammophilus and Cerceris, Sphex and Pompilus excavate their burrows wherever they please; they carry their prey thither on the wing, or, if too heavy, drag it afoot.
To excavate the soil, our grave-diggers must feel the weight of their dead on their backs.
The length of its body which is covered with bristles is about four feet, and its feet which are short, are furnished with strong claws which enable it to excavate the cavities in which it lives.
In the shallow gravelly pools which they find towards the source of rivers, Salmon form hollows in which they spawn, covering up their eggs with the loose sand they excavate in the process.
Tide glaciers, such as those of Greenland and Alaska, are able to excavate their beds to a considerable distance below sea level.
They excavate underground galleries and chambers, extending sometimes as much as fourteen feet below the surface, and build mounds which may reach as high above it.
Here they excavateburrows in the ground in contiguity to each other, and, when the little creatures are out, quite a busy scene is presented.
It was the original intention to excavate a sufficient width of the sides of the avenue to erect six rows of the permanent steel viaduct, 5 ft.
My experience differs from that of Hume, inasmuch as it tends to show that green parrots do not excavate their own holes, or even the entrances to them.
I should be inclined to favour the last of these alternatives but for the fact that woodpeckers seem to excavate a new nest every year.
It taps away at tree after tree until it comes upon a place in a trunk that sounds hollow; it then proceeds to excavate a neat, round passage leading to this hollow.
To enable the stone-boring molluscs which live only in the sea to excavate this marble, the temple and columns must have been buried several fathoms deep in sea-water.
To excavate its cell at the bottom of one of these gloomy retreats seems to be all that the animal lives for.
The first step in the construction was toexcavate a trench 15 ft.
The line chosen for the opening cut was down the center of the pit, as it was not safe to excavate near the bounding streets until after the completion of the enclosing retaining wall.
One must disengage them from this thick covering, andexcavate the soil, often to a great depth.
Upon taking possession of our post our first business was to excavate a ditch round the tent, in order that, should rain occur, the water might be carried into a pond below.
When the Chinese establish themselves anywhere in Tartary, if they find mountains, the earth of which is hard and solid, they excavate caverns in their sides.
Such also was the fractured and rugged state of the surface of this rock, that it became necessary to excavate part of the foundation-pit of the building to the depth of seven feet.
It is found necessary to excavate the Rock further, to a greater depth.
Sidenote: Found necessary still to excavate to the depth of fourteen inches.
Occasionally, and especially where there are no rocks, they excavate burrows a few feet in length in the hillside or into the peat-bank.
Most of them are burrowing animals, and excavate long runs and nesting places in the earth; a few, like the Squirrels and Dormice, are arboreal.
At St. Kilda, its favourite nesting places are on the downlike cliffs, places where the soil is deep and loamy, and allows the bird to excavate a hollow of varying depth.
The nest is made at the end of a burrow, a rabbit hole being frequently selected; but sometimes the bird is said to excavate one for itself, in which case it follows a nearly circular direction.
On beginning to excavate for the foundations of his house he came upon some tessellated pavement, carvings, and all the evidences of remains of some importance.
No sooner did we begin to excavate for the foundations than we came upon huge, massive cut blocks of stone, which evidenced the existence of some previous building of great antiquity.
Had I had time to excavate I should no doubt have found that it led into a tomb.
I had suffered so unspeakably that I resolved without more ado to excavate for myself a new habitation underground which in comparison with the culvert seemed a paradise to me.
At once he applied for permission to excavate under the little outlying mountain named by the desert folk "the Mountain of the Golden Pyramid.
Nothing was definitely fixed up between the Government and Fenton for the right to excavateat the Mountain of the Golden Pyramid, as they call the little old molehill, and I scored.
Thus the bumble-bee, which abides underground, dwells in very small communities, probably for the reason that the conditions of the soil it inhabits make it difficult to excavateand maintain large rooms.
Haul monuments for him, excavate canals for him, work for him in the work of your hands, and there will accrue unto you his favour as well as his food daily.
His Majesty sent me to excavate five canals in the South, and to make three lighters, and four barges of the acacia wood of Uauat.
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