TAYLOR BIRD. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Motacilla sutoria. M. tota flava minima. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1. p. 997. 
A very small species entirely yellow. 
Taylor Bird. . . Penn. Ind. Zool. pi. 8. Lath. Syn. 2. 
p. 515. no. 49 . 
The nest of this bird is one among the many cu- 
riosities which are daily occurring to the naturalist. 
It is composed of two leaves, sewed together in a 
very nice manner by the little taylor, whose bill 
serves him for a needle. He generally chooses a 
dead leaf which he picks up from the ground ; and 
flying with it to the extremity of a branch, at- 
taches it to a living one, making use of slender 
fibres instead of thread. The nest is in the form 
of a pouch, and open at top : a lining of gossamer, 
or soft vegetable down, together with a few feathers, 
completes the operation. Thus is constructed the 
most simple nest in Nature, in which the little fa- 
mily are brought up without the fear of being in- 
terrupted by any one. The nest and the birds are 
together so light, that the leaf attached to the end 
of the most slender twig will be strong enough for 
