^6 INDIAN ZOOLOGY. 



Nest. 



-the reach of an invader. Each aims at the fame end, 

 though by different means. Some form their per^file neft in 

 fliape of a purfc, deep, and open at top j others with a hole 

 in the fide; and others, ftill more cautious, with an en- 

 trance at the very bottom, forming their lodge near the 

 fummit ■*. 

 Bescriptjon. But the little fpecies we defcribe, feems to have greater 



diffidence than any of the others : it will not truft its neft 

 even to the extremity of a flender twig, but makes one 

 more advance to fafety by fixing it to the leaf itfelf. 



It picks up a dead leaf, and, furprifing to relate, fev/s it 

 to the fide of a living one -j-, its flender bill being its 

 needle, and its thread fome fine fibres; the lining, feathers 

 goflamer, and down. Its eggs are white. The color of the 

 bird light-yellow: its length three inches, its weight only 

 three-fixteenths of an ounce, fo that the materials of tne 

 neft, and its own fize, are not likely to draw down a habi- 

 tation that depends on fo flight a tenure. 



• This inftinft prevales alfo among the birds on the banks of the Gamlia, in 

 Jfdca, which abounds with monkies and fnakes : others (for the fame end) 

 make their neft in holes of the banks-that over-hang that vail: river, Purchas. ii. 

 /• 1575. 



t The live leaf in the print Is that of the Mango tree. A neft of this bird is 

 preferved in the Britijh Mu/eum. 



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