CONTENTS. IX 



plementary nest — The Sixging Honey-eater and its nest — The Myall or 

 weeping acacia — Various materials— The Lunulated Honbt-Eatee— A new 

 material — The Painted Hokey-Eateb, its hahits and nest — The art of preser- 

 vation — Neste and their branches— The colour of eggs— The 'White-throated 

 Hoxey-Eater and its habits — Its curious nest — Locality of the nest — The 

 Golden-crested Ween, and the resemblance of its nest to those of the 

 Honey-eater — The Swallow Dio^um — Its song and beauty of its plumage — 

 The nest, its materials, form, and position — The Malurus and its nest — The 

 HammockBied — Singular method of suspending the nest — TheWniTE-SHAEXED 

 Fantail — Strange fonu of the nest — The appendage or tail of the nest . 213 



CHAPTER XIII. 



PENSILE BIRDS (CONTINUED). 



American Pensile Birds- Humming Birds, and the general structure of their 

 nests — The Little Hermit, its colour, habits, and nest — The Grey-throated 

 Hermit and its hardihood — The Pigmy Hermit and its seed-nest — The Long- 

 tailed Humming Bird — Mode of building its nest— The White-sided Hill 

 Stae — Curious method of suspending its nest — The Sappho Comet — The 

 Chimboeazian Hill Stab — Curious locality — Its habits, food, and neat — The 

 Sawbill and its singular nest — Habits of the Sawbill — The Brazilian 

 Wood Nymph — Use made of its plumage and its nest — The Ruby and Topaz 

 Htimming Bird— Stuffed Skins — The Azure Cceeeba, its colour, nest, and 

 habits — The Baltimore Oriole — Reason for its name — Its beautiful nest, 

 and curious choice of materials— Familiarity of the Baltimore Oriole — The 

 Orchard Obiole or Bob-o'-Link — Various forms of nest — Wliy called 

 Orchard Oriole — The Crested Ca.ssi(jue, its size, form, and colours— Its re- 

 markable nest— Difficulty of obtaining nests — The Great Crested Fly- 

 catcher, and its use of serpent sloughs— The Red-Eyed Flycatcher, Wuir- 

 Tom-Kelly — Low elevation of its nest— The White-Eyed Flycatcher, its 

 nest, and fondness for the prickly vine — The Prairie Warbler, its habits and 

 nest — The Pinb-Creeping Warbler — The Asiatic pensiles — The Baya 

 Sparrow — Its colour and social habits — Singular form of the nest . . 229 



CHAPTER XIV. 



PENSILE INSECTS. 



The Hymenoptera — Australian Insects — The Ceematogaster and Negro-head 

 — The Green Ant, its habits and nest — An African species — Pensile Ants of 

 America — The Abispa, aud its remarkable nest — Ingenious entrance — The 

 Tatua, or Dutchman's Pipe — Structure and shape of its nest — Firmness of 

 the walls — Average number of cells in each tier — The Common Wasp as a 

 PensUe insect — Gigantic nest — Union of three colonies — Character of the 

 Wasp — The Norwegian Wasp — Structure and locality of its nest — Classi- 

 fication of the Wasps — The Campanular Wasp and the Northern Wasp — 

 The Chartergus or Pasteboard Wasp — Mode by which the nest is suspended 

 —Method of structure — Meaning of the name — Enormous nest from Ceylon - 

 Various Wasp nests — The Polistes as a Pensile Insect — Singular nest in the 

 British Museum — The Gibbous Ant — Honey Wasps, the general characteristics 

 of their nests — The Mtkai'ETRA- Its singular nest — Strurture of the wiiU.'i 



