82 THE ARCHITECTURE OF BIRDS. 
the one which in the East is, par excellence, named 
the tailor-bird (Sylvia sutoria, Latu.), the description 
of whose performances we would be apt to suspect 
for an Oriental fiction if we had not a number of 
the actual specimens to prove their rigid authentici- 
ty. We do suspect, however, that these very spe- 
cimens have misled European naturalists a step be- 
yond the truth in their accounts of its proceedings. 
“The tailor-bird,” says Darwin, “ will not trust its 

Nest of the Tailor-bird (Sylvia sutoria, LatH.), from Pennants 
Sigure. 
