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STRANGE DWELLINGS, 
be hidden; but the method which it employs is not precisely 
the same as that which is used by the tailor bird. Instead of 
passing its thread continuously through the holes, and thus 
sewing the leaves together, it has a great number of threads, 
and makes a knot at the end of each, in order to prevent it 
from being pulled through the hole. A description and beau- 
tiful figure of this bird may be seen in Gould’s 4 Birds of 
Europe,’ voi. ii. 
