82 THE ARCHITECTURE OP BIRDS. 



the one which in the East is, par excellence, named 

 the tailor-bird (Sylvia sutoria, LATH.), 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' 

 figure. 



