4+ INDIANZOOLOGY. 



X. 



MOTACILLA SUTORIA. 



THE TAILOR BIRD. 



Motacilla Sutoria, Gmelln. Lin. i. 99^. Latham iv. 515. 

 Index Oniith. ii. 551. 



Tailor Bird. IITAD Providence left the feathered tribe unendowed 

 with any particular inflind:, the birds of the torrid zone 



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Instinct. would have built their nefts in the fame unguarded man~ 

 ner as thofe of Europe ; but there the leller fpecies, hav- 

 ing a certain prefcience of the dangers that furround them, 

 and of their own weaknefs, fufpend their nefls at the ex- 

 treme branches of the trees i they are confcious of inha- 

 biting a climate replete with enemies to them a,nd their 

 young J with fnakes that twine up the bodies of the trees, 

 and apes that are perpetually in fearch of preyj but, 

 heaven-inftrudted, they elude the gliding of the one, and 

 the adlivity of the other. 



An Indian An Indian foreft is a fcene the moft pidlurefque that 



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can be imagined ; the trees feem perfedlly animated ; the 

 fantaftic monkies give life to the ftronger branches ; and 

 the weaker fprays wave over your head, charged with 

 vocal and various -plumed inhabitants. It is an error to 



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