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It was commenced on a thick spider’s web, by 
attaching to it various fragments of paper, cloth, 
straw, grass, and other substances, till it had secured 
a firm hold of the twigs to which the web adhered, 
and the nest suspended on this was then completed 
by adding other fragments of the same materials ; 
the hole is at the one side, near the top, and has a 
slight projecting roof or awning over it.” * 
* Mr. Jerdon’s excellent Catalogue of the Birds of the Pe- 
ninsula of India. Madras Joum. of Science, Sept. 1839, et seq. 
