Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — A Bird's Barbed Wire Fences. [ARTICLE]

A Bird's Barbed Wire Fences.

There may be eeea along the roadsides in Central America a brown wren about tbe ffize ST I canary which builds a nest out of all proportion to its apparent needs. It selects a small tree with horizontal branches growing dose together. Across two of tbe branches ft lays sticks fastened together with tough fiber until a platform about six feet long by two feet wide has been constructed. On the end of this platform nearest the tree trunk it then builds a huge dome shaped nest a foot or so high with thick sides of interwoven thorns. A covered passageway Is" then made from tbe nest to the end of the platform in as crooked a manner as possible. Across the outer end as well as at short Intervals along the inside of this tunnel are placed cunning little fences of thorns with just space enough for the owners to pass through. On going out this opening is dosed by tbe owner by placing thorns across the gateway, and thus the safety of the eggs or young Is assured.