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Jackdaws' Nest

also Jackdaw's Nest · the Jackdaws’ nest

A huge nest built by a colony of thieving Jackdaws on a hollow ledge of a mountain cliff beyond the desert, half filled with stolen jewels and money, into which the Gump and its passengers fall.

First named in The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 18

By good fortune they fell only a few feet; for underneath them was a monster nest, built by a colony of Jackdaws in a hollow ledge of rock; so none of them—not even the Pumpkinhead—was injured by the fall.

Where this is

  • placed Beyond the desert worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

    The Scarecrow says the Gump 'must have carried us entirely out of the Land of Oz and over the sandy deserts', and the party flies back across 'the wide, sandy desert separating the rest of the world from the Land of Oz' to get home.

What the books say it is

  • inhabitants hundreds of Jackdaws 1 chapter
    • “Of course they will,” said Tip; “for this is their nest. And there must be hundreds of them,” he continued, “for see what a lot of things they have brought here!”
      The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 18
  • danger a sheer precipice of several hundred feet below and a smooth cliff above 1 chapter
  • appearance half filled with small articles stolen over many years from the homes of men 1 chapter
    • Indeed, the nest was half filled with a most curious collection of small articles for which the birds could have no use, but which the thieving Jackdaws had stolen during many years from the homes of men.
      The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 18

Appearances

The Marvelous Land of Oz (3 of 24 chapters)

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