492 TAYLOR BIRD. 
their purpose : here it is they fix their habitation, 
and, thus suspended, they may almost bid defiance 
to every invader but the wind. 
The taylor bird inhabits India; and has only 
been noticed on account of its singular nest, a figure 
of which, with a very short description of the spe- 
cies, is given by Mr. Pennant in the Indian Zoology. 
