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commenced building anotber in a small tree at the other side of the 
door, and, as in the first instance, commenced their operations on a 
fragment of spider's web. They reared two young ones from this 
nest. 
" It has a very feeble but sweet chirping note. It feeds, like others 
of the genus, partly on the honey extracted from flowers, and partly 
on minute insects, flies, cicadas, &c. It occasionally hovers on the 
wing before a flower while extracting the honey, but generally hops, 
or flies rather, among the smaller twigs. Occasionally I have seen it 
snap at an insect in the air. Whilst feeding, it frequently opens and 
closes its wings. 
" I have seen this bird on the very top of the jS'eilgherries, which 
shows what a great degree of cold some of this tropical genus will 
suffer without inconvenience." — (Jerdon.) 
Capt. S. E. TickeU (J. A. S. Beng. XVIII. p. 302) says : " Xest 
bulbous, bottle-shaped, with lengthened neck, suspended from the end 
of a small branch, in thick bushy trees, gardens, banks of tanks, seldom 
far in jungle. JN'est soft, composed of little bits of leaves, grasses, 
fine twigs, and chips of bark, woven together with a fibrous substance 
resembling tow. Entrance by a small circular hole at bottom, and 
side lined neatly with seed-down. Length 8 in. ; eggs three, ^ in, 
long, rather pointed, pale greenish-white, minutely speckled with 
dusky, which forms a clouded zone round larger end." 
1086. ARACHNECHTHRA CHALCOSTETHA, Jardine 
Sp, 
Nectarinia calcostetha, Jardine, Nat. Lihr. Xect. 
p. 263 (1842). 
^ Xectarinia pectoralis, TemmincTc* PI. Col. 138, f. 3 
(182-). Muller, Verli. JSTaturl. Gesch. Ned. Ind. 
Zool. Aves, p. 57, pi. 9,/ 2, $ . 
Chalcostetha pectoralis, Cahanis, Catal. B. Mus. Seine, 
p. 103. 
^ Xectarinia insignis, Jardine, Nat. Liir. Neat. p. 274: 
(1842). G. R. Gray, Gen. ofB. 1. p. 98, n. 68. 
Cinnyris Mackloti, Bonap., C. G. Av.p. 408 (1850). . 
A. r?. Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
b. ^. Dra^ving. From Parry's Collection. 
* Xec. Horsfield. 
