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FEMALE. 
PLACE AND 
Manners. 
30. 
Var. Ao 
DEscRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
Gin 0 § BY AK 
the eyes, and the chin, of the fame colour: the top of the head is 
yellow: the hind part of the neck and back, and fcapulars, the 
fame; the middle of the feathers brown: lower part of the back 
brown, with whitifh margins: fore part of the neck and breaft 
yellow; from thence to the vent yellowifh white: wing coverts 
brown, edged with white: the quills brown, with pale rufous or 
whitifh edges: tail as the quills: legs yellowith. 
The female has the upper parts brown, margined with rufous : 
rump of this laft colour: under parts pale rufous: quills and tail 
margined with pale rufous: legs yellowith. 
Thefe inhabit the Philippine [lands, and are noted for making 
a moft curious neft, in form of a long cylinder, fwelling out into 
a globofe form in the middle. This is compofed of the fine 
fibres of leaves, 8¢c. and faftened by the upper part to the ex- 
treme branch of a tree. The entrance is from beneath; and, after 
afcending the cylinder as far as the globular cavity, the true neft 
ig placed on one fide of it; where this little architect lays her 
eggs, and hatches her brood in perfect fecurity. 
Le Baglafecht, Buf. of. iii. p. 4696 
HIS does not differ confiderably from the laft. The irides 
yellow: the black on the fides of the head rifes above the 
eyes: the mixture of brown and black on the back is lefs diftinét ; 
and the greater wing coverts, quills, and tail, greenifh brown, 
edged with yellow: the wings reach to the middle of the tail. 
Inhabits 4dyfinia. 
This may be confidered as a mere variety, not only on account 
of the piumage, but manners, as it makes a very curious neft like 
the 
