Perhaps in no case is the concealment more complete than when dead leaves are employed to cover the door. In some cases a single withered olive leaf only is spun in and suffices to cover the trap; in others, several are woven together with bits of wood and roots, as in the accompanying woodcut, which represents different views of the upper door of the nest which is drawn in Plate X. p. 100.
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In this nest another interesting feature presents
itself, for here the tube projects a short way beyond
the surface of the ground and is hardened and coated
with earth and fine gravel in such a way that it
requires no other support. This is not commonly the
case, and may perhaps be the result of a contrivance
to meet the necessities of a nest which has had the
surface earth washed away from it. But I have frequently
observed nests in which the upper part of the
tube is carried up for two or three inches through
