76 THE ARCHITECTURE OF BIRDS. 
in their colours. I have a number of their nests 
now before me, all completed and with eggs. One 
of these, the neatest, is in the form of a cylinder, of 
five inches diameter, and seven inches in depth, 
rounded at bottom. The opening at top is narrowed 

Baltimore Starling (Icterus Baltimore) and Nest. 
by a horizontal covering to two inches and a half m 
diameter. The materials are flax, hemp, tow, hair, 
and wool, woven into a complete cloth, the whole 
tightly sewed through and through with long horse- 
hairs, several of which measure two feet in length. 
The bottom is composed of thick tufts of cowhair, 
sewed also with strong horsehair. This nest was 
