Show edible birds nests found in great caves par far up tip lit in tile great limestone eaves caves of north borneo tire lire found glued to tile the r sides ides in hundreds of thousands the edible birds nests so loved by chinese epicures epi cures for soup tile the nests are built by it a of cave swifts which breeds in colonies they are formed not as the natives believe from sen sea foam but from a glut glutinous lilous substance produced from the largo salivary glands of the birds themselves there tire are two kinds of nests the white and ho he black the white inesta are clean and genii transparent the line threads of which they are interwoven i liel b eang ng not unlike those of a shredded wheat cake the black nests tire are discolored and lieve grass and feathers mixed with them the black nests predominate but the white from which the best soup Is made fetch from ten to fifteen times as much as the alic others ot liera |