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be hidden ; but the^ method which it employs is not precisely 

 the same as that which is used by the tailor bird. Instead of 

 passing its thread continuously through the holes, and thus 

 sewing the leaves together, it has a great number of threads, 

 and makes a knot at the end of each, in order to prevent it 

 from being pulled through the hole. A description and beau- 

 tiful figure of this bird may be seen in Gould's * Birds of 

 Europe,' vol ii 



