118 CURIOUS HOMES AND THEIR TENANTS. 



And yet this is but a simple structure compared 

 with those of some of the tropical orioles, which in 

 turn must yield the palm for excellence to the nests 



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Birds' tenement house. 



of those most skillful of all feathered architects, the 

 weaver birds. 



Some of these birds build double nests, one apart- 



