94 THE ARCHITECTURE OF BIRDS. 
and felted together, that it might have been taken 
for a piece of fine cloth a little worn, the tissue be- 
ing so compact and close that it would have been im- 
possible to detach a particle of the materials with- 
out tearing the texture to pieces; yet was this only 
effected by the process which I have already de- 




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Nest of the Capocier (Sylvia roa LATHAM), from Vaillani’s 
ure. 
