So Of the Eggs and Nefts of Birds. Part I. 
more clofe and folid 5 within, confiding of parts loolly 
Netted together, as thofe in the middle of Harts-Horns , or 
fome fpongy Bones. See alfo a fhort Defcription hereof in 
Wormius. 
The Birds breed in Coromandel , and build their Ne/ls 
r i) Guiidm. (as is fuppofed of the Sperm of Fifhes) [a) on the fides of 
the high Rocks 3 from whence the Natives fetch them, 
(b) Muf. and fell them to the Chittefes at a great rate, (b) 
The TREBLE NEST of an Indian Bird, made to hang 
down from the Bough of a Tree, with three Venters or 
Bellies, and three Necks all open one into another. See 
the Picture of fuch a like one in WiUughbys Ornithologia. 
T he NEST of another Eaft-Indian Bird, which, to avoid 
the rapine of Apes and Monkey i ;, Ihe hangs down from the 
Bough of a Tree,by a very long Neck. See the figure here¬ 
of alfo in Mr. Willugbby. 
The NEST of a little BIRD of BRASILE, which fhe 
hangs alfo on a Tree out of the reach of Serpents. About 
ten inches in length. Ihe Structure admirable. The up¬ 
per part by which it hangs to the Tree is a flat Label, about 
four inches long, and three over. To this the other two 
Parts, fc. the Neck and Belly of the Neft, are fufpended. 
The Neck is five inches long 5 below, an inch and i over 3 
above, a little ftraiter. The Belly is likewife about the fame 
length as the Neck, of an Oval figure, in the middle two 
inches and 5 over. The Neck is open, not above, but be- 
lov, at the very end : for this and the Belly hang at the 
Label, as you would imagine a Sack of Corn hung up by 
the middle, quite double. So that the Bird firft afeends 
by the Neck, and then defeends into the Belly of the Neft. 
It is compofed of Reeds and other parts of Plants cunouily 
woven together, like a piece of Hair-Cloath. 
A GREAT NEST of an other Weft-Indian Bird. Above 
three quarters of a yard long, befides part of it broken off. 
\V here broadeft, near a foot over, and almoft flat. Nar¬ 
rowed from the bottom all the way to the top. It hath 
. two Apertures. Above, about a foot from the top of the 
intirc Nell, one larger and longer 5 below, fc. 1 a foot 
above the bottom, another perfectly round, and three 
inches over. It confifteth of the parts of Plants forne- 
what loofely woven together. The Invention feemeth 
very 
