X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XI. 

 PENSILE BIRDS. 

 Weaver Birds and their general Habits. — Red-billed Weaver Bird. — Its bo- 

 vine Friends. — Its Use to the Buffalo. — Other parasitic Birds. — .The Spotted- 

 backed Weaver Bird. — Its Nest and variable Method of Construction. — The 

 Mahali Weaver Bird. — Shape of the Nest.— Singular Defense. — Theories re- 

 specting the Structure. — Habits of the Bird. — Remarkable Nests of Weavers. — 

 Account of Weavers engaged in Nest-building. — Very curious Contrivance. — 

 The Gold-capped Weaver. — Structure and Situation of the Nest. — The Taha 

 Weaver Bird. — Locality selected for its Nest. — Destructiveness to Crops. — The 

 Palm Swift. — Its general Habits. — The Nest and its variable Structure. — Silk- 

 cotton. — The Tailor Bird. — Antiquity of Handicrafts.— Structure of the Nest. 

 —The Fan-tailed Warbler. — Singular Method of fixing its Nest.— The Pendu- 

 line Titmouse. — Its Habits and Food. — Remarkable Nest and its Form Page 219 



CHAPTER XII. 



PENSILE BIRDS (Continued). 

 Australian Pensiles. — The Yellow-throated Sericornis. — Its Habits. — Singular 

 Position for its Nest. — Conscious Security. — The Rock Warbler. — Shape and 

 Locality of its Nest. — The Yellow-tailed Acanthiza^ — Its Color and Song. — 

 Supplementary Nests. — The Pinc-pinc and its Home. — Supposed Use of the sup- 

 plementary Nest. — The Singing Honey-eater and its Nest. — The Myall or 

 Weeping Acacia. — Various Materials. — The Lunulated Honey-eater. — A new 

 Material. — The Painted Honey-eater, its Habits and Nest. — The Art of Pres- 

 ervation. — Nests and their Branches. — The Color of Eggs. — The White-throat- 

 ed Honey-eater and its Habits. — Its curious Nest. — Locality of the Nest. — The 

 Golden-crested Wren, and the Resemblance of its Nest to those of the Honey- 

 eater. — The Swallow Dioeum. — Its Song, and Beauty of its Plumage. — The 

 Nest, its Materials, Form, and Position. — The Malurus and its Nest. — The Ham- 

 mock Bird.— Singular Method of suspending the Nest. — The White-shafted 

 Fantail.— Strange Form of the Nest.— The Appendage or Tail of the Nest.. 234 



CHAPTER XIIT. 

 PENSILE BIRDS (Continued). 

 American Pensile Birds. — Humming-birds, and the general Structure of their 

 Nests.— The Little Hermit, its Color, Habits, and Nest.— The Gray-throated 

 Hermit and its Hardihood. — The Pigmy Hermit and its Seed-nest.— The Long- 

 tailed Humming-bird.— Mode of building its Nest.— The White-sided Hill 

 Star. — Curious Method of suspending its Nest. — The Sappho Comet. — The 

 Chimborazian Hill Star.— Curious Locality.— Its Habits, Food, and Nest.— 

 The Sawbill and its singular Nest.— Habits of the Sawbill.— The Brazilian 

 Wood Nymph.— Use made of its Plumage and its Nest.— The Ruby and Topaz 

 Humming-bird.— Stuffed Skins.— The Azure Ccereba, its Color, Nest, and Hab- 

 its. — The Baltimore Oriole. — Reason for its Name.— Its beautiful Nest, and 

 curious Choice of Materials.— Familiarity of the Baltimore Oriole. — The Orchard 

 Oriole, or Bob-o'-Link. — Various Forms of Nest.— Why called Orchard Oriole. 

 —The Crested Cassique, its Size, Form, and Colors.— Its remarkable Nest.— 

 Difficulty of obtaining Nests.— The Great-crested Fly-catcher, and its use 

 of Sernent-sloughs. —The Red-eyed Fly-catcher, Whip-Tom-Kelly. —Low 



