TABLE OP CONTENTS. 



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HOMES IN THE WATER. 



Human lake-dwellers . . .... 



Four-footed lake-dwellers. 



a floating nest . . . ... 



Web-spinning fish and nest. 



a quarrels051e little nest-builder .... 



a dome under water 



Tube dwellings 



Sea shells that build nests like those of birds . 



Head-footed nest-buildebs 



An animal rolled into a ball and living in a stone 

 A nest in a waterfall 



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PORTABLE HOUSES. 



Turcoman's portable villages . 



The portable house of the hermit crab . 



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MISCELLANEOUS. 



a waru house 

 a house that wears a hat 

 Dwelling in skeleton 

 a h0.me in a horn . 



A CITY OP birds 



Feathered gardeners 

 The fun-lovino kagu 

 The SHADOW birds . 

 Spiders and cobwebs 

 Death in a rose . 

 Insect home-builders 



