36 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The black and yellow Daw, another bird of 
this kind, which lives in South America, builds a 
neft in the.form of an alembic; which is made 
very curioufly of hair and fibres, woven together, 
This neft is hung at the end of a very {mall 
branch ; and 400 of them have been feen on one 
tree. 
The neft of the Baltimore is hung like a purfe, 
from a forked branch of a tree. 
The Banana fews his neft very-curioufly to the 
under part of a leaf of the banana-tree, which 
ferves as a covering, and is at the fame time a 
part of the neft. Its form is very fingular, for it 
is like a quarter of an orange. 
In the countries where they live there are a 
great many monkies and ferpents ; and they build 
their nefts in this manner, at the end of a very 
fmall branch, that they may be fecure from their 
attempts ; for monkies and ferpents are very fond 
of eating birds. 
Albin fays, that the Banana birds will fome- 
times join together to attack a larger bird; and 
after they have killed him, will devour him, every 
one eating in his turn without quarrelling. 
The Iéerus Pterophcenicus, or Red-winged 
Starlings, fly together in great flocks ; and fome- 
times join with other birds, and deftray whole 
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