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glances, leaving only a little door in the side. Both of 
these things the hang-nest actually does. I myself have 
seen a nest of his making, over the open top of which a 
broad leaf had been bent down and tied by glutinous 
threads in such a way as to make a good portico. Mr. 
Thomas Gentry found a much more complete example at 
Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, where the ori- 
oles “were constrained to erect a permanent roof to their 
dwelling by interwoven strings through their deprivation 
of the verdant and agreeable canopy which the leaves would 
naturally afford..... So nicely is the roof adjusted that 
even the most critical investigation cannot discern the 
union. ‘The entrance is a circular opening situated in the 
superior third of the nest, facing southwardly.” Mr. Gen- 
try considers this the latest improvement upon a nest which 
in the beginning was simply a hammock in the fork of a 
tree, like a vireo’s, but which has been made more and 
more pendulous, until what was at first the whole nest is 
now only the lining at the bottom of a deep enclosing bag. 
With the idea of testing Wallace’s theory that birds of 
bright colors, easily detected by birds of prey, are always 
found to occupy concealing nests, Dr. C. C. Abbott, of 
Trenton, New Jersey, made extensive notes upon the nests 
of our subject. In every instance those nests which fully 
