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to see the bee's abdomen extending just beyond the last ring 
of the turret, and then applying the two portions of mud 
deftly to the last layer. She cannot see what she is doing, 
since during this work her head is always inside the chim- 
ney. 
Fig. 14. An uprooted tree, both sides of which contained nests of Entechnia 
taurea. 
Since I wished not to demolish the bank, I opened only 
a few burrows. The first consisted of a gallery one inch in 
length, terminating in a pocket in which were two neat, 
thimble-shaped cells . 1 One of these was sealed ; when opened, 
it was found to be crammed full of white pollen (or per- 
haps bee-bread, since part of it was moist and might have 
been mixed with nectar or water), and on a dry portion of 
the mass and securely attached to it was the elongated egg. 
The lower cell contained the same. The lower part of the 
mass of bee-bread was very moist and soggy, while the 
1 These cells were not made by merely partitioning the tunnel, but 
each was a solid mud cup built inside the burrow and snugly fitted 
into it. When these nests were opened the surrounding earth could 
merely be picked off leaving a complete cup as illustrated in Fig. 15. 
