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CURIOUS HOMES AND THEIR TENANTS. 



Agrtcultural ants 



Carpenter ants 



Honey ants and their homes 



PAOE 



77 

 83 

 84 



HOMES IN THE ROCKS. 



Human cliff-dwellers . 

 Australian cliff-dwellers 

 Eagles' nests . 



87 

 94 

 97 



HOMES IN THE TREES. 



Tree houses in New Guinea 



A strange animal . 



Animals that sleep through the winter. 



Potto 



Bashful Billy 



The long-tailed coonbear . 



Tenement house built by birds . 



A clever little architect . 



A nest built in midwinter .... 



The flower-eater and her pretty nest 



The feathered seamstress . 



The feathered parson and his ho.me 



Stealing a home . 



Walled in .... 



The wood-eater 



Butterfly house 



Wasps' nests 



101 

 105 

 108 

 110 

 113 

 115 

 117 

 121 

 126 

 131 

 133 

 134 

 138 

 140 

 144 

 147 

 149 



HOMES IN THE GRASS. 



Human nest-builders . 



Queer little kangaroo's nest 



Nest of pig's feet. 



The s.mallest and prettiest op jiice . 



154 

 157 

 160 

 162 



HOMES IN THE SNOW. 

 Homes of the Eskimo, white bear, and seal 



167 



