BIRDS. PASSERES. go. Loxia. 
ei 
lofi' 
2. Tail and quill-feathers ereenifh-brown, 
yellow. 
Inhabits the P/ii/i'/ij&z'iic IJlcs, i.) Ahyjfima ; 57 
conftrufts a curious neft with the long fibre* o* 1 , , \ >' 
dry grafs, and fufpends it by a kind of cord, nf |)i' 
J o 7 — * 1 , • 
ell long, from the end of a flcnder branch of for”® 
iipr 
it may be inaccelfible to fnakes or other "cci»Pl 
the interior part confills of 3 divilions ; the fir^ 
l>y the male, the fccond by the female, and the tbit^ 
iiidic, me lecona Dy me lemaie, ana trie 
tb® y°r*rrg ; in tliefirft apartment, where the mal® 
• /'-'wng j iii tiitiuit dudiimt III, wnere tne ^ 
while the female is hatching, a little tough clay P 
liJ'’ 
one fide, and on the top of this clay a glosv-tv 
affords its inhabitants light in the night tiiiif. 
The neft. of 2) is foinething Ipiral, with an opening 
which is always turned from the rainy quarter. b”’'*! 
Hind-head, back and _flioulders pale yellow, the for”® 
in the middle ; lower part of the back bfown, r”®^ 
edged with wliitilh ; belly jialc ochre ; fo'* 
edged with white ; ^utll and tail-feather browa> 
reddifli or wliitilh. 
Female above brown, beneath reddiHi. 
throat and 
and tail-fcathef* 
bli* 
iclf' 
bf”' 
'jfinua, Yellowifli ; crown, temples, 
flioulders blackifli ; qutll 
edged with yellow. - 
Inhabits Abyjjuua ; fize of the hawfinch; / foci”.** ' S 
pendent nelf, the Opening of which is on one fi“® . ^^e 
calf ; it is divided in the middle by a partition, r*” jj fetj’ , 
is within this cavity on one fide; "by this mea”® J 0”, 5 
from the intrufion of fnakes, fqnirrels, 
milcliievous animals, and defended from the v'’®* , 
which in this country kfts for 6 months together- ^ 
Irids red; wing-coverts brown, edged with gre/’ 
dilli-grey. 
' • fee'll 
filu. Green; head and throat yellow; ocular 
belly grey ; vent rufous-red ; bill, e, 
quill-feathers black, the laft edged with 
Inhabits Madagafcar ; fize of a houle-lparrow ; 
penfile neft of draw and reeds, lhaped like a bag- V 
opening beneath, on one fide of' which is the true n® 
bird does not chule a new fituation every ye^*"’ 3' 
new neft to the end of the laft, often as far as 5 ’ -^gs L 
ing from another ; builds in large focieties and or ^ 
each hatch, Irids yellou-. 
