Show the tallor bird the brilliantly plumed birds of tho tropical forests re exposed to many dangers andje they were not gifted with peculiar yet useful instincts they would fall ready victims to their cne amses chattering monkeys and big snakes steal and eat their eggs while their offspring are preyed upon by foes on every side but it takes a sly monkey or snake to get ahead of tho tailor bird a small east indian singing bird she hides her nest so skillfully that her enemies cannot find it no matter how hard they try this she docs by using her long slender bill as a needle with the tough fiber of a parasitic plant abundant in the tropics as a thread ahe sews a dead leaf taken from the end of a slender and hanging branch and between these leaves she hullda hernesto her nests where neither monkey nor beako can approach because the branch will not bear its weight |