CHAPTER V 



OPEN NESTS 



Open Nests a widely prevailing type — Nests of certain Geese — Nest of the 

 Screamer — Nests of Curassows, Guans, and the Hoatzin — Of Bonaparte's Gull 

 — Classification of ' * Open " nests — Nests of the Albatrosses — Of the Herons and 

 Bitterns — Of the Spoonbills and Ibises — Of the Storks — Nests of the Pelecani- 

 formes — Of the Gannets — Of the Cormorants — Of the Darters — Of the Pelicans 

 —Of the Frigate Birds— Of the Flamingoes— Of the Cranes— Of the Rails and 

 Finfoots — Nests of various Falconiformes — Of the Vultures — Of certain Eagles 

 — Of the Kites — Of the Hawks and Harriers — Of the Ospreys — Nests of the 

 Humming Birds — Of certain Swifts — Of the Colics — Nests of the Passeriformes 

 —Of Crows and Allied Birds— Of the Birds of Paradise— Of the Drongos— Of 

 the Orioles — Open Nest of a Hangnest — Of the Tanagers — Of the Finches and 

 Allied Birds — Of the Larks — Of the Wagtails and Pipits — Of the American 

 Wood Warblers — Of the Honey Eaters — Of the White-eyes — Of certain Flower 

 Peckers— Of the Goldcrests— Of the Bearded Titmouse— Of the Shrikes— Of 

 the Waxwings— Of the Vireos— Of the Thrushes— Of the Whinchat— Of the 

 Warblers— Of the Mocking Birds— Of the Timeliidze— Of the Tailor Birds— Of 

 the Laughing Thrushes — Of the Bulbuls — Of the Cuckoo Shrikes — Of certain 

 Flycatchers — Of certain Swallows — Of the Tyrant Birds — Of the Chatterers 

 — Of the Ant Thrushes — Of the Pteroptochidse — General Remarks on the 

 Open or Cup-shaped Type of Nest — Mimicry in Nest-building. 



There can be little doubt that an open nest is the 

 normal type of avine architecture, not only because 

 it is by far the most widely prevailing, but also the 

 most convenient for the ordinary methods of repro- 

 duction. It may be found more or less frequently 

 in almost every great group into which birds have 

 been divided by systematists. In our review of open 

 nests, however, we shall find that the type is subject 



