THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 



WEAVERS. 



Many birds construct for their nests a kind of canvas, 

 composed of grasses twisted together in a very compact 



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175. Nest of the Fondia eri/throps (Bonaparte).— From the Eouen Miisciiii 



manner, resembhng a coarse cloth woven upon the loom 

 of some primitive tribe. These are in truth weavers who 

 work up vegetable filire like avooI or cotton, possessing 



