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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 



The materials of which it was composed were the silky fibres 

 of plants, the cotton-like down of seed vessels, and some other 

 substance, which is supposed to be fungus, and is of a woolly 

 texture. All these materials were interwoven wath spiders' web, 



LITTLE MEKMiT. (^Pkaetkoruis cremita.) 



by means of which the nest was a.ttached to the leaf at the end 

 of which it swings. The bird almost invariably chooses some 

 dicotyledonous leaf for its pendant home. 



