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36 THE NATURAL HISTORY : 
Tie black and yellow Daw, another bird of . 
this kind, which lives i 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 fmall 
branch; and 400 of them have been feen on one — 
‘tree, 
The neft of bie Bal Itimore is bin like a purle, 
~ from a forked branch of a tree. 
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The Banana fews his neft very curiously 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 
‘38 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 
{mall branch, that they may be fecure from their 
attempts ; for monkies and Let are very fond 
‘of eating birds. 
Albin fays, that the Banana birds will eed 
times join together to attack a larger bird; and 
_ after they have killed him, will devour him, every | 
- 6ne eating in his turn without quarrelling. 
The I[Gerus Pterophcenicus, or Red- winged 
Starlings, fly ‘together in great flocks; and fome- 
fimes join a other birds, and gat whole . 
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