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behind the top of the head whitifh. There is a black band 
i. which pafles by each eye. The wing and tail feathers are 
| duly, margined with whitifh afh-colour. 
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ae Bis bird inhabits Ruffa, Poland, Italy, and 
_fome other parts of Europe. , Ls 
The great ingenuity which it employs in the 
ofthe down of willows, of the poplar, of cotton | 
a grals, of thiftles, and of other plants: thisis curi- 
- oufly combined, and interwoven, until it acquires a 
- texture almoft as firm as cloth; the infide fs fure 
~ nithed with the fame ‘materials, but not worked 
in the fame manner, that it may be foft and warm 
for the young. It is covered above, for the pur- 
pote of warmth and thelter, and fufpended from 
— curioufly woven by this ingenious mechanic, of 
_ ‘the filaments of nettles, and of hemp. 
i ‘branch ; 3 hence it is gently rocked by the wind; 
"cures it from the attempts of rats, fnakes, lizards, 
ee | and 
OF BOT R D's. 48g. 
. The healt 1 black ; the head and neck afh- colour; 
 conftruction of its neft, is the moft interefting ciz- _ 
_ cumftance in its hiftory. The outfide is formed of * 
_ fibres, and little roots, but the bulk of it confifts 
the forky part of a flender branch, by a twine, 7 
_ This neft is contrived to hang from a flender 
and fufpended over a running water, which ie: | 
