HAMMERHEAD 



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In its characteristic brown garb, crested head and 

 long legs, it is a familiar figure along the shores of 

 water-courses, vleis and dams, where it may be found 

 singly or in pairs cutting its queer capers, or on the 

 prowl for frogs and small fish. 



FIG. 66. A pair of young Hammerheads. - 



It constructs a huge nest of sticks and mud ; first 

 a saucer-shaped foundation about 3 feet in diameter is 

 built of large sticks thrown together and cemented with 

 mud, either on a rock by the side of a stream, or more 

 frequently, in the fork of a tree. Upon this foundation 

 a circular dome-shaped structure is erected, containing 

 a round chamber (sometimes two). It is a solid compact 

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