At this time we may find him wherever trees grow, but his real summer home is coniferous forests, especially of hemlocks, in which he often builds his nests 15-20 feet above the ground.
The nest, like that of our other Vireos, is a deep cup hung from between a crotch from 5 to about 40 feet above the ground.
Their nest, of course, is always built in pines, usually from 30-50 feet above the ground.
A tree-top Warbler of deciduous forests, nesting from 25 to 60 feet above the ground.
The nest was 16 feet above the ground and 12 feet out on a limb of an oak; it was made like our northern nests and lined with the "moss" and fine rootlets.
Occasionally, isolated trees on the edges of swamps or on the shores of ponds were sufficiently covered with the lichen to contain nests, and these were sometimes as much as 20 feet above the ground.
In the two principal villages of Faro or Fauro which are named Toma and Sinasoro, a number of the houses are built on piles and raised from 5 to 8 feet above the ground, as shown in the accompanying plate.
Nest holes are normally 8 to 50 feet above the ground with an entrance hole 1.
These nests were 15 to 20 feet above the ground; most of them contained one or two nestling birds.
Several nests were seen in hollows of the Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia) between 20 and 30 feet above the ground.
Nests were placed in the crotches of limbs of mangroves, 8 to 15 feet above the ground.
A circular iron stairway winds its spiral way up to a floor of iron, where rests the lantern, 58 feet above the foundation and 47 feet above the ground.
All three wires of a circuit are held 40 feet above the ground by a terminal tower, and pass to their entries in the wall of a station at the same level.
The width of each tower at the top is 12 feet at right angles to the line, and the two sides having this width come together at points about 40 feet above the ground.
In order to do this the standard steel towers that hold the lower cables 40 feet above the ground level at the insulators are spaced at varying distances apart, according to the nature of the ground between them.
The eastern room was entered by the doorway shown in the illustration, which is 2 feet above the ground and 2 feet high.
It is but 2 feet above the ground, however, and very roughly constructed.
On the highest point of the bowlder shown on the right of the plan there is a fragment of compacted sheep dung and soil, which is now 6 feet above the ground.
They were broad, shallow cups of roots and twigs, lined with fine black grass-roots, and placed at heights varying from 4 to 10 feet above the ground, invariably in the forks of low bamboo.
The nest is placed in the fork of some thick bush or small tree, where three or four sprays divide, at from 2 to 5 feet above the ground.
Its nest is placed about a foot or 2 feet above the ground, in a bamboo-clump or some thick bush, and is firmly wedged in between the twigs and shoots.
It struck me that the sambur had got the wind of an enemy, otherwise she would not have rushed back in such sudden haste; she could not have scented me, as I was 10 or 12 feet above the ground, and the breeze was aslant .
It is essential that the night watcher should be raised about 10 feet above the ground, otherwise the tiger would probably obtain his scent.
The gunners are in such case placed at suitable intervals upon platforms called mucharns, securely fitted between convenient forks among the branches of a tree, about 10 or 12 feet above the ground.
I have already described the keen power of scent possessed by this wary animal, which necessitates extreme caution, and the placing of the guns in positions elevated about 10 feet above the ground.
They seem not to descend lower than 30 feet above the ground.
I saw two on July 7 working in a living tree some 15 feet above the ground.
On November 10, I watched a male and female feeding about three feet above the ground in the undergrowth.
I observed these babblers only in sub-canopy trees, at least 30 feet above the ground.
The beech tree is of medium size growing to a height of about 75 feet above the ground.
The middle room or space was built up three stories high, and the walls are still standing to a height of 28 to 30 feet above the ground level.
The floors in the center, north, and east rooms were found to be about 8 feet above the ground surface.
The exterior walls rise to a height of from 20 to 25 feet above the ground.
It consists of a single story, with a cornice line 65 feet above the ground.
The top of the dome is 125 feet above the ground, and is surmounted by a colossal statue representing a Winged Victory.
At the centre is a cupola rising 165 feet above the ground, and reached by eight elevators.
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