Montagu says, "He who feels inclined to study the nidification of this bird, must search the lower branches of the oak, or inspect the woodbine mantling round the hazel.
Nidification commences about the end of March or beginning of April; incubation lasts about seventeen days, and in a month from the time of hatching the young are ready to fly.
One remarkable circumstance connected with its nidification is the immense quantity of material which it collects; sometimes it builds in chimneys, and completely stops them up with the huge pile of sticks, which it there deposits.
In the time of nidification the most feeble birds will assault the most rapacious.
It has been remarked chat every species of bird has a mode of nidification peculiar to itself; so that a schoolboy would at once pronounce on the sort of nest before him.
The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have been often assured by a curious observer of nature, who long resided at Gibraltar, where eagles abound.
The best authority that we can have for the nidification of the birds above-mentioned in any district, is the testimony of faunists that have written professedly the natural history of particular countries.
He had found four nests of the ruby-throat, but had seen no male about any of them after nidificationwas begun.
After the work of nidification is over, birds as a rule wander more or less from their breeding haunts; and even if they do not wander they are likely to become silent.
I don't like to believe that the little villain leaves the entire task of nidification to his better half (we may well call her better, if he does); but my memory is a blank so far as testimony affirmative of his devotion is concerned.
In its nidification it also comes nearest to that species.
The Hawk-Owl often takes a fancy to the situation, and appropriates it for nidification purposes, paying dearly for his intrusion when the owner of the cylinder comes round to collect his dues.
Nidification is carried on by the Skua in companies, in the Shetland Islands only.
By the unsatisfactory manner in which Audubon refers to the nidification of this parakeet, one is led to believe that even he did not become personally acquainted with its breeding habits.
Absolutely nothing is known of the nidification of the Curlew Sandpiper, and its egg has never yet been described.
But little is known respecting the nidification of the Bar-tailed Godwit, and its eggs, very rare in collections, have hitherto only been obtained in Lapland.
But very little is known of the nidification of the Brent Goose.
Although nidification usually commences about the 20th of May, from some inexplicable cause or other, this essential business is often deferred until the middle of June and, occasionally, as late as the beginning of August.
Again, nidification commences at a time when there is little danger to be apprehended.
Nidification is now entered into with commendable zeal.
In buildings that are freely used by man, persistence in this habit might be attended with results, which would be escaped by nidification in chimneys.
Nidification ordinarily commences about the 18th of May.
Did the builders work continuously at it from sunrise to sunset, the period of nidificationwould be considerably shortened.
Nidification It has been adequately documented that members of these genera closely resemble one another in their nesting and egg-laying habits.
The point to be made here is simply this: If the species in question are to be considered congeneric then it might reasonably be expected that they would display some similarity in nidification and egg-laying.
In the season of nidification the wildest birds are comparatively tame.
The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have been often assured by a curious observer of Nature, who long resided at Gibraltar, where eagle abound.
It has been remarked that every species of bird has a mode of nidification peculiar to itself, so that a schoolboy would at once pronounce on the sort of nest before him.
In these beautiful little birds the males only are adorned with brilliant colours, the females being quite plain, yet they build covered nests in all the cases in which the nidification is known.
Colonel Legge writes of the nidification of this bird in Ceylon:--"This Babbler breeds from December until February.
All I know of the nidification of this species is that Sir E.
About Simla and the valleys of the Sutlej and Beas I have found it common, and my experience of itsnidification in these localities has been above recorded.
Sufficient is now known about the nidificationof this latter to render the insertion of Hodgson's note unnecessary.
Of the Yellow-bellied Wren-Warbler's nidification I know personally nothing.
Footnote A: The accompanying incomplete account of the nidification of this bird is all I can find among Mr. Hume's notes.
Marshall says:--"There is no record about the nidification of this species.
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