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to and fro with a peculiar undulating flight. Many species of the same genus 
are known to ornithologists. 
The tailor bird is not the only member of the feathered tribe which sews 
leaves together in order to form a receptacle for its nest. A rather pretty bird, 
the Fan-tailed Warbler (Salicaria cisticolci) has a similar method of action, 
though the nest cannot be ranked among the pensiles. 
This bird builds among reeds, 
sewing together a number of 
their flat blades in order to make 
a hollow, wherein its nest may 
be hidden ; but the method which 
it employs is not precisely the 
same as that which is used by 
the tailor bird. Instead of pass¬ 
ing the thread continuously 
through the holes, and thus sew¬ 
ing 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. 
The Yellow-throated Seri- 
comis (S. citreogularis ) constructs 
its nest in bunches of Louisiana 
moss that often accumulate at the 
extremities of drooping tree 
branches. 
The Rock Warbler {Origma 
rubricata ), on the other hand, 
builds a pensile nest, generally 
suspended from a shelving rock 
overhanging a brook, and usually 
builds in societies, like the fairy 
martens. 
The Singing Honey Eater 
{Ptilotus sonorus ), the most melo¬ 
dious bird of Australia, attaches 
its nest to the long, slender, trail¬ 
ing branches of a tree called 
acacia pendula , resembling our 
weeping willows. These birds are 
also gregarious, and sometimes a 
single tree will contain more than 
NEST OF THE LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 
hundred of such nests, rocked by every 
gentle zephyr. - . c . 
The Swallow Dicaeum (D. hirundinaceum ), a small but very beautilul 
bird of South Wales, makes an exquisite nest of cotton-wood down, a pure 
white, which is not permitted to be soiled, and hangs it from the top of a lofty 
branch, where it looks like a beautiful purse. 
The Lanceolate Honey Eater (Plectorhynchus lanceolatus ), of England, a 
