 | James Anderson - 1792 - 394 ページ
...entrance downwards, to secure it from birds of prey.His nest usually consists of two or three chambers j and it is- the popular "belief, that he lights them...which he catches alive at night, and confines with moist clay, or with cow dung. That such flies are oftsn found in his nest, where pieces of cow dung... | |
 | 1791 - 542 ページ
...placing it with its entrance downwards to fecure it from birds of prey, riis neitufually confiib ut two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief, that he lights them with fire-flies, which h; catches alive at night, and confines with moid clay, or with cow-dung : that fuch flits are often... | |
 | 1794 - 892 ページ
...the branches, but io as to rock with the wind, and placing it with its entrance downwards to fecnre it from birds of prey. His neft ufually confifts of...it is the popular belief, that he lights them with fire-flics, which he catches alive at eight, and confines them with moifl clay, or with cow-dung ;... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 540 ページ
...he weaves like cloth, and fhapes like a large bottle, fufpending it firmly on the branches, but Ib as to rock with the wind ; and placing it with its...alive at night and confines with moift clay, or with cowdung. That fuch flies are often found in his neft, where pieces of cow-dung are alfo ftruck, is... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 ページ
...and placing it wrth its entrance downwards to secure it from birds of prey. His nest usually consists of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief that he lights them with Fire-flies, which he is said to catch alive at night, and confine with moist clay or with cow-dung. That such Flies are... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 468 ページ
...fig-tree, and he prefers that, which happens to overhang a well or a rivulet : he makes it of VOL. II. AA grafs, which he weaves like cloth and fhapes like...alive at night, and confines with moift clay, or with cow-dung: that fuch flies are often found in his neft, where pieces of cow-dung are alfo ftuck, is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 910 ページ
...and placing it with its entrance downward, to secure it from bh-ds of prey. His nest usually consists of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief,...which he catches alive at night, and confines with moist clay, or with cow-dung: that such flies are often found in his nest, where pieces of cow-dung... | |
 | 1829 - 410 ページ
...and placing it with its entrance downwards to secure it from birds of prey. His nest usually consists of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief...which he catches alive at night and confines with moist clay, or with cow-dung. That such flies are often found in his nest, where pieces of cow-dung... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 ページ
...and placing it with its entrance downwards to secure it from birds of prey. His nest usually consists of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief...which he catches alive at night, and confines with moist clay or with cow-dung. That such flies are often found in his nest, where pieces of cow-dung... | |
 | Young lady - 1829 - 542 ページ
...the branches of the Palmyra, or some other high tree, and rocks to and fro with the wind. It consists of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief, that the bird illumines its little tenement with fire-flies, which are often found stuck, by means of a... | |
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His nest usually consists of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief that he lights them with fireflies, which he catches alive at night and confines with moist clay, or with cow-dung. 
