CHAPTER VI 



DOMED AND ROOFED NESTS 



Nest of the Hammer-head — Domed Nests of the Rails — Of certain Swifts — 

 Of various Parrots— Of the Lark-heeled Cuckoos— Nests of the Broad-bills— 

 Of the LjTe Birds — Domed type a dominant one in the Order Passeriformes— Of 

 the Magpies— Of certain Starlings— Of the Meadow Starling— Of the Weaver- 

 birds— Domed nests of certain Tanagers— Of the Sugar Birds— Of certain 

 Sparrows— Other domed-building Finches— Of the Bush Larks— Of certain 

 American Wood Warblers— Of the Sun Birds— Nests of the Sun Birds resembling 

 those of the Social Spiders — Nests of the Flower-peckers — Of certain Titmice — 

 Of the American Bush Tits— Of the Hill Tits— Of the Rock Nuthatches— Of 

 the "Palm Sparrow"— Of the Willow Warblers— Of the Fantail Warblers— Of 

 the Dippers— Of Origma rubricata— Of the Wrens— Of the Timeliidae— Of 

 various Pomatorhini — Of various species of Pellorneum — Triple types of nest — 

 Nests of certain Flycatchers— Of various Swallows— Of certain Tyrant Birds— 

 Of certain Chatterers— Of the Pittas— Of various Wood Hewers— Of the Oven 

 Bird — Of certain species of Pteroptochidae — General Remarks. 



In the present chapter we are introduced to a much 

 more complicated style of architecture than any that 

 we have hitherto had to consider. Not that this 

 domed-roofed type of nest is any indication of greater 

 intelligence ; it can only be regarded as another of 

 the many methods that birds adopt for safety, a mere 

 divergence or variation in the one grand utilitarian 

 plan of avine architecture. In our review of these 

 domed and roofed nests we shall again find it most 

 convenient to confine ourselves to a taxonomic 

 arrangement. 



It is a somewhat remarkable fact that we have no 

 instance of a web-footed bird building a domed or 



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