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HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. 



Eagle are very useful for the piirpose of respiration, but the 

 bird has apparently little or no olfactory sensibilities. The 

 stench that arises from an inhabited Eagle's nest is quite beyond 

 the power of description, for the young Eagles themselves are 

 not the sweetest beings in the world, and their evil odour is 

 supplemented by that which arises from the refuse food that is 

 suffered to putrefy in the very nest. 



There are very many sea-birds which hatch their young on 

 the shelves of precipitous rocks, and of them I have chosen for 

 an example the bird which is called the Noddy (Anous stolidits). 

 It is a species of Tern, and has long been celebrated among 

 sailors for the ease with which it can be captured, especially if 

 the daylight has departed. 



THE XODDY. 



The Noddy mostly chooses for its nesting-place some lofty 

 precipice, and generally lays its eggs upon a shelf of the rock. 

 Sometimes but rarely, it takes a fancy to some low and thick 

 bush, and in any case is but an indifferent architect. Often 



