SUPPLYING THE COMMUNAL RATIONS 



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Fig. 46 MOUND NEST OF TEXAS CUTTING ANT 



UNDER A LIVE-OAK TREE PARTLY 

 DEFOLIATED 



sandy soil as it was brought out and dumped upon the 

 heap, being massed at the base and gradually sloping 

 to the top. Another of these beds, the one which was 

 especially studied and finally opened, was a large mound 

 at the foot of a live-oak tree (Fig. 46) . This had prob- 

 ably been formed by a road or trail that passed with- 

 in several yards of the tree, thus restricting the limits 

 of the gates and throwing the separate moundlets back 



upon one another. [McC. 6, p. 231.] 



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