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or cotton thread picked up; and after passing the thread through 
the leaf, it makes a knot at the end to fix it.” Species of Tailor- 
bird more or less nearly allied are found throughout the greater part 
of the Indian Region ; but some of them would appear not always 
to build their nests in this fashion ; and birds of the genus Cisticola, 
to which belongs the FANTAIL-WARBLER, C. cwrsi/ans, that inhabits 
the South of Europe, ply the same trade on stems of grass, 
confining them by stitches above the nest, which is built among 
them and takes a globular form. Both Orthotomus and Cisticola 
are remarkable for the variation in colour of the eggs they lay, 
which in the case of the latter is said to depend on the season 
of the year (cf. Eacs, p. 189). All these birds are referred by 
most systematists to a subfamily of Sylviidx (WARBLER) known as 
Drymecine, but at present nothing can be said with certainty on 
that point. Dr. Sharpe (Cat. b. Br. Mus. vii. p. 215) places them 
-in his Timeliidx, with the true members of which group they seem 
to have little in common. 
TAISTEY or TYSTY (spelling uncertain), Icel. peista, the 
Shetland name for the DoveKey of sailors (p. 166) and Black 
GuILLEMoT of books (p. 399), Uria grylle. 
TAKAHE, the Maori name of Notornis (cf. MooRHEN, pp. 591, 
592), adopted by the settlers in the South Island of New Zealand, 
where it is supposed still to exist. 
TALENTER, used fancifully for Hawk (Thos. Middleton, The 
World Tost at Tennis, 1620), as having “ talents,” ze. talons—these 
words being often confounded, or played upon, as by Shakespear 
(Love’s Labour's Lost, iv. 2, 65). 
TAMMY-NORIE, a northern form of Tom-Noppy, and a name 
for the PUFFIN (p. 750). 
TANAGER, a word adapted from the quasi-Latin Tanagra of 
Linneus, which again is an adaptation, perhaps with a classical 
allusion, of Zangara, used by Brisson and Buffon, and said by 
Marcgrave (Hist. Rer. Nat. Bras. p. 214) to be the Brazilian name 
of certain birds found in that country. From them it has since been 
extended to a great many others mostly belonging to the southern 
portion of the New World, -now recognized by ornithologists as 
forming a distinct Family of Oscines, and usually considered to be 
allied to the Fringillide (FINCH, p. 250); but, as may be inferred 
from Prof. Parker’s remarks (Z’rans. Zool. Soc. x. pp. 252, 253 and 
267), the Tanagride are a “feebler” form, and thereby bear out 
the opinion based on the examination of many types both of Birds 
and Mammals as to the lower morphological rank of the Neotropical 
Fauna as a whole (GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, pp. 321-323). 
The Tanagers are a group in which Mr. Sclater has for many 
