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Spiders Webs. The Neils of the various Sorts of 
Humming Birds are pretty, particularly one on 
which a very beautiful Bird is fitting. The King 
Fifher’s Neft, and that of the Tom Tit, are not 
unworthy of Remark, efpecially being the Produce 
of our own Country. But there is a Neft brought 
from Cambodia , and other Parts of the Eaft Indies , 
about the Size of a Goofe’s Egg, and in Subftance 
notunlike Ifmglafs; being diffolved in Water, it 
makes a fine Soup, whence it is generally called 
the Soup Neft : It is made by a fmall Indian Swal¬ 
low of a delicate Tafte. Thefe Birds are feen at 
certain Seafons of the Year in vaft Multitudes on 
the Sea Coafts, where in the Clefts of the Rocks 
they build their Nefts of an hemifpherical Form, 
making them of a fpumous Matter which they 
find on the Sea Shore. There is only one kind of 
Neft more to be mentioned, and we have done with 
this Title; it is brought from both the Indies, and 
covered with Leaves, which the Birds are faid to 
fow together with their Beaks; whence they have 
the Name of Taylor Birds. 
Having given this fhort Account of the Nefts of 
fuch Kinds of Birds as are generally deemed moft 
curious and meriting Attention, we are naturally 
brought to the next Repofitory. 
Ova, Eggs. Thefe are very numerous: Let it 
be thought fufficient, therefore, that the Reader be 
informed, that among others, there are Specimens 
of the Eggs of the Oftrich, the Cafifoware, Owls 
and Eagles of various Kinds, Penguins, Cormo¬ 
rants, Maccaws, feme Parrots Eggs, thofe of the 
China Pheafant, King Filler, Mifcle Birds, and 
i'ome remarkable blue Eggs from Virginia. There 
are alfo, a fmall Egg contained within another, very 
curious; fome that have irregular furrowed Sur¬ 
faces, 
