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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 
of which is remarkable for some peculiarity of structure, though 
they are all pensile. 
The first of these nests is that which is made by the White- 
sided Hill Star (Oreotrochilus leucopleurus) ; a native of the 
Andes of Acoucagua, inhabiting a zone of very great elevation, 
seldom being seen less than ten thousand feet above the level 
of the sea. With the exception of a bright emerald-green gorget, 
SAWBILL HUMMING BRAZILIAN WOOD WHITE-SIDED HILL 
BIRD. NYMPH. STAR. 
it is rather a dull-coloured bird, the prevailing hue being brown. 
The nest is shaped something like a hammock, not unlike that 
of the lanceolated honey-eater, described and figured on page 
136, and is fastened, not to a twig or a leaf or a branch, but to 
the side of a rock, being suspended by one side, so as to leave 
the remainder free. 
