68 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
small roots, stems, and fibres, roughly woven and cemented 
together by means of spiders’ webs, the whole being slung by 
a broad band of green moss, stiffened with spiders’ webs and 
a very few small roots and stems, from a horizontal twig 
at three, six, and nine feet respectively from the ground. 
There was no lining, the general material of the nests being 
Text-fig. 4. 
Nest of Smthornis capensis. 
merely worked into a smooth cup, with a diameter, front and 
back, of 2 inches, and a depth from the opening downwards 
of 1°5. From every nest was suspended a long untidy tail of 
in one case moss, in the others grass and weed-stems, bringing 
the total length to 18 inches or even 2 feet, and giving the 
whole fabric much the appearance of the chance lumps of 
moss, orchids, and dry leaves which one commonly finds hung 
