. Fanciers' journal and land & water . that is, that often the vfrysmallest and weakest birds build the most difficult and mostartistic nests, and that, among these, there are also found theso-called double nests, , nests, not only containing accommoda-tions for the future brood, but having further, a sort of supple-ment or addition to this which serves for the young to climb uponand for a watch-tower. These appendices of the double nests are most part, between the branches of the mimosa, (sensitive plant.)The Pinc-pinc belongs to the family Motacillae,t which almostwithout exception, buil
. Fanciers' journal and land & water . that is, that often the vfrysmallest and weakest birds build the most difficult and mostartistic nests, and that, among these, there are also found theso-called double nests, , nests, not only containing accommoda-tions for the future brood, but having further, a sort of supple-ment or addition to this which serves for the young to climb uponand for a watch-tower. These appendices of the double nests are most part, between the branches of the mimosa, (sensitive plant.)The Pinc-pinc belongs to the family Motacillae,t which almostwithout exception, build beautiful and skillfully constructed nest of the Drymoica is often a cubic foot in size, while thenest proper, within this, is only four inches in diameter. Theinternal nest is neatly lined with a delicate fabric woven out of softfeathers, and down from the seed-pods of certain plants, while theexternal structure consists entirely of a rough, uncouth mass ofgrasses and moss, so put together that it resembles the fVi^^X-^^-^ ^^- IHL PINCP Nk^ AM) lis moreover as variable iri form, design, and size as the nests them-selves. One of the most interestino^ and striking illustrations of these isfnrnialied lis by the nest of the Pinc-pinc, one of the smallestsinging birds of South Africa. The Pinc-pinc, called by natural-ists Drymoica textrix and Drujicapilla, derives its popular namefrom its common call Pinr-pinc-pinc, is about the size of ourGolden Cockerel,* (Goldl ^ inchen) and builds its nest for the *The literal of this word does net give a very felicitous name inin English, but the bird here meant is probably the eame as our Goiden-crowned-kinglet.— Trans. or growth of the moss itself, which one frequently sees on the tican find no authority for the statement of fhia author, that the Dry-moica belongs to the fdmily Motai-illae. (MolnciUa, qunti semper moret can-dam.) Wag-tails are all this can designate, and these birds live in swampyp
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