58 THE TAILOR-BIRD AND THE ORIOLE. 
shade it from the sun ; and there is a hole 
on one side near the top, that serves as a 
door. 
The oriole does not stay all the year round 
in America. When the autumn comes, she 
flies away to the south, and generally spends 
the winter in Jamaica, or one of the warm 
islands of the West Indies. She is known by 
a great many different names, and is some- 
times called the fire-bird, because the bright 
orange colour of the tail feathers flash among 
the green leaves like fire. 
Some birds are styled felt-making birds 
because they press the material of their nest 
together, by turning their bodies round and 
round upon it, until they have made it as 
tight and compact as cloth. They do not 
hang up their nests as the orioles do, but fix 
them firmly into the fork of a branch ; indeed 
the branch is embedded in the nest, and you 
cannot pull it away without leaving a part 
beliind. 
One of these birds is called the pinc-pinc 
on account of her note, and is a native of 
Africa. She chooses a thick prickly shrub to 
build in, and her nest is rather clumsy to look 
