FIG. 8. A TYPICAL ALLIGATOR'S NEST, MADE CHIEFLY OF GRASS. 



The guide is feeling for eggs without disturbing the outside of the nest. Being 

 made of the same material as the background, the nest does not stand out very 

 sharply, though in nature the contrast is somewhat more marked, owing to the 

 fact that the surrounding grass is green while the grass of which the nest is built 

 is dead and brown. (From a Photograph by the Author.) 



