206 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
long grasses, while those nests which were placed in 
the trees were made of sticks and were lined with 
106. Newly hatched Pelicans. Ground nest. 
grasses, the nest proper being erected on a platform 
of larger sticks laid from crotch to crotch in the 
bushes in such a manner as to form a broad, firm 
foundation, though, structurally, it was not a part 
of the nest, which could be lifted without removing 
the platform. 
The difference between the nests of straw! and 
those of sticks" were so marked that it seems prob- 
able their makers regularly selected sites on the 
