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instead of being built of exceedingly hard material, only fine moss and erythrops, a specimen of which is in the Museum at Rouen. This bird
down enter into its composition. The opening is woven with care' not selects two or three rushes near each other, and then, with grasses
a vegetable fibre projects beyond another. rushes, and other vegetable fibres, weaves a coarse and imperfect tissue
Who can say in what marvellous manner the bird, while upon the Nwbich, in the shape of a shallow cup, serves to hold the female and he
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Nest of the Penduline Titmouse.
wing, approaches its nest, enters it or leaves it by anl opening w hicli
seems to have scarcely the diameter of its body, and never disturbs the
slightest fibre, yet such is the fact.
The other nest, of which we give an illustration, is that of the Fondia
CONTENTS OF NO.
IAGE
AP ARABs HUNTING THE WILD-GOAT." (Illustration.) From a Paint ing by Horace Vernet....................................... 449
WHERE WE GET COAL, AND HOW. (Illustrated.) By President
IHIenry Coppe........................... 450
THE LADY OF THE ICE: Chapters XI. to XIII. (Illustrated.) By
James De Mille, author of " The Dodge Club Abroad," " Cord
and Creese," etc............................................ 454
THE THREE BROTHERS: Chapter XXXV. By Mrs. Oliphant, au thlor of " The Chronicles of Carlingford, " The Brownings,"
etc. (From advance-sheets.)................................ 459
TILE SucCEssFUL NovELIsT. By Annie Tbomas.................. 462
'The two great objects of a learner's ambition ought to be, to speak a
foreign language idiomatically, card to pronounce it correctly,
and these are the objects which are most carefully
jProvided for in the MASTERY SERIES.
THE MASTERY OF LANGUAGES;
OR,
Nest of the Fondia Erythrops.
grouwing brood. These nlests, each equally surprising of its kiund, serve
to illustrate two of the extremes of the weaver's art; for aLmolng birds
there are veritable weavers, knitting with beak and claws a fabric vwhich
would do credit to human skill.
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DURING TIE RED TERROR. By Rev. Dr. Keatingeo...............
LEAH. By Edgar Fawcett......................................
FRENCH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. By B. F. De Costa...........
HORACE VERNET. By Eugene Benson...........................
TABLE-TALE....................................................
ART, MUSIC, AND THE DRAMA...................................
SCIENTIFIC NOTES...............................................
-LITERARY NOTES...............................................
MIISCELLANY...................................................
VARIETIES......................................................
THE MUSEUM. (Illustrated.)...................................
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