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Their nests, which are semi-pensile, are often placed in giant yucca trees, or in vines that are suspended from cacti.
BIRD GUIDE: LAND BIRDS EAST OF THE ROCKIESCHESTER A. (CHESTER ALBERT) REEDTheir nests are semi-pensile and usually placed in mesquite trees not more than ten or fifteen feet from the ground.
BIRD GUIDE: LAND BIRDS EAST OF THE ROCKIESCHESTER A. (CHESTER ALBERT) REEDThat long black wasp, commonly called a Jack Spaniard, builds pensile paper nests under every roof and shed.
AT LASTCHARLES KINGSLEYThe Philippine and Pensile Grosbeak make also very curious nests.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 13, NO. 361, SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE (1829)VARIOUSFour or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTIONVARIOUSThe nest is built in a low bush in a wooded pasture or open woodland, said to be partially pensile.
BIRDS AND ALL NATURE, VOL. V, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 1899VARIOUSThe large red monkey of Demerara is not a baboon, though it goes by that name, having a long pensile tail.
WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICACHARLES WATERTONThese are in great part perpendicular, and are overclambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 20, NO. 119, SEPTEMBER, 1867VARIOUSThe latter is really the best authenticated case we have seen of the truly pensile style of nest.
NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATESTHOMAS G. GENTRYThey were of the species known as the “pensile weaver-bird.”
POPULAR ADVENTURE TALESMAYNE REIDWORDS RELATED TO PENSILE
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