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STRANGE DWELLINGS . 
The materials of which it was composed were the silky fibres 
of plants, the cotton-like down of seed vessels, and some other 
substance, which is supposed to be fungus, and is of a woolly 
texture. Ail these materials were interwoven with spiders’ web, 
little hermit. (Phaethornis eremita.) 
by means of which the nest was attached to the leaf at the end 
of which it swings. The bird almost invariably chooses some 
dicotyledonous leaf for its pendant home. 
