 | James Anderson - 1792 - 394 pages
...ftiapes like a bottle,. suspending it firmly to the branches, but so as to rock with the wind jand placing it with its entrance downwards, to secure it from birds of prey.His nest usually consists of two or three chambers j and it is- the popular "belief, that he lights... | |
 | 1792 - 724 pages
...weaves like cloth, and flïapes like a large bottle^ fufpending it firmly ori the branches, but fo as to rock with the wind, and placing it with its entrance downWards to feciire it from birds of prey. His neft ufuallv cotififts of two or three ¿lumbers ; and it ie the... | |
 | James Anderson - 1792 - 386 pages
...grafs, which he weaves like cloth, and fhapes like a bottle, suspending it firmly to th» brunches, but so as to rock with the wind ; and placing it with...usually, consists of two- or three chambers; and it isjdae popular telief, that he lights them with fire-flics, which he catches alive at night, and confines-... | |
 | 1794 - 892 pages
...he weaves like cloth, and fliapes like a large bottle, fuTpcndini; it firmly on the branches, but io as to rock with the wind, and placing it with its entrance downwards to fecnre it from birds of prey. His neft ufually confifts of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular... | |
 | Edward Moor - 1794 - 562 pages
...he weaves like cloth, and fhapes like a large bottle, fufpending it firmly on the branches, but fo as to rock with the wind ; and placing it with its entrance downwards, to fecure it from birds of prey. His neft ufually confifts of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular... | |
 | 1795 - 434 pages
...weaves it like cloth, and fliapes like a arge bottle, fufpending it firmly on the branches, but fo as to rock with the wind, and placing it with its entrance downward» to ecure it from birdi of prey. His neft uiually confifts of two ' or three chambers; and... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 540 pages
...he weaves like cloth, and fhapes like a large bottle, fufpending it firmly on the branches, but Ib as to rock with the wind ; and placing it with its entrance downwards, to fecure it from birds of prey. His neft ufually confifts of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 pages
...the Indian fig-tree, and he prefers that which happens to overhang a well or a rivulet : he makes it of grass, which he weaves like cloth, and shapes like a large bottle, •uspending it firmly on the branches, but so as to rock with the wind, and placing it wrth its entrance... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1803 - 322 pages
...like cloth, . shaped like a large bottte, and divided into two or three chambers. This is suspended firmly on the branches, but so as to rock with the wind; ami it isthe poular belief that the inhabitant illuminates it with re-flies, which she catches alive... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 468 pages
...which he weaves like cloth and fhapes like a large bottle, fufpending it firmly on the branches, but fo as to rock with the wind, and placing it with its entrance downwards to fecure it from birds of prey. His neft ufually confifts of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular... | |
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In' a state of nature, he generally builds his nest on the highest tree that he can find, especially on the palmyra, or on the Indian figtree, and he prefers that which happens to overhang a well or a rivulet ; he makes it of... 
