The orange-plumaged orioles have pensile nests, which is a characteristic of the order to which they belong, most of the members of which are conspicuous.
Visitors to the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park will have noticed that the orange-plumaged orioles have pensile nests, which is a characteristic of the order to which they belong, most of the members of which are conspicuous.
Who, o'er her palaces and buried towers, Shall bid the owl hoot, and the bittern scream; And on her pensile groves and pleasant shades 80 Pour the deep waters of forgetfulness.
They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials.
In tropical America, birds of this character are found in many species of the genera Cassicus and Icterus, who weave pensile nests of a similar kind upon the trees of the Amazon and Orinoco.
They were of the species known as the "pensile weaver-bird" (Ploceus pensilis).
Their capitals of 7-1/2 feet in height resembled an open lotos blossom, surrounded by double wreaths of two hundred pensile bronze pomegranates, supporting an abacus, carved with conventional lily work.
I think we little understand the pensilegardens of Semiramis, which made one of the wonders of it [Babylon], wherein probably the structure exceeded the plants contained in them.
Arizona, where they nest in bushes at low elevations, making the semi-pensile structures of woven strips of bark and grasses, lined with fine round grasses attached by the rim to a fork and sometimes stayed on the side by convenient twigs.
Nest of grass, lined with thistledown; semi-pensile in drooping twigs of a willow.
This species suspends its semi-pensile nests in bushes or trees, and some times from the mistletoe, which grows on numerous trees in southern Arizona.
Like the others, it builds a long pensile nest of similar material and suspended from the extremities of limbs near the ground The five to seven eggs are pure white.
Even better known than the birds, are the pensile nests which retain their positions on the swaying drooping branches all through the winter.
They build pensile nests of strips of bark and fibres, swung from the forks of branches.
They build semi-pensile nests in the forks of bushes or overhanging branches at heights of from four to twenty feet, the nests being made of rootlets, fibres, fine grasses, etc.
Happily, it has wit enough to build its pensile nest high above the reach of small boys, usually suspending it from a branch overhanging running water that threatens too precipitous a bath to tempt the young climbers.
It is said to be extraordinarily large for so small a bird but that need not surprise us when we learn that as many as ten creamy-white eggs, blotched with brown and lavender, are no uncommon number for the pensile cradle to hold.
The lime formation represents pensile boughs of weeping-willow, garlands of flowers, and stalactites covered with all kinds of floral decorations.
There are large ornamented pillars near delicately-tinted formation, drooping from overhanging rocks, like pensile boughs of weeping willow.
There is something courtly and poetical in a pensile nest.
Within the walls was raised a lofty mound, Where flowers and aromatic shrubs adorn'd The pensile garden.
In the midst of {65} the mass a single enormous sycamore often rears its ghastly limbs, while at its foot springs gracefully up a light fringe of the pensile willow.
I walked to the hills, over a level cultivated country interspersed with occasional belts of low wood; in which the pensile nests of the weaver-bird were abundant, but generally hanging out of reach, in prickly Acacias.
Here I saw for the first time the funereal cypress, of which some very old trees spread their weeping limbs and pensile branchlets over the buildings.
Its spray being slenderer and longer than the common sort, forms an elegant pensile foliage, like the weeping willow, and, like it, is put in motion by the smallest breeze.
The shape of its leaf is conformable to the pensilecharacter of the tree; and its spray, which is lighter than that of the poplar, is more easily put into motion by a breath of air.
The "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers.
They are celebrated for their fine purse-shaped pensile nests.
It is the most artistic of all pensile structures, and resembles an old-fashioned silken purse.
The latter is really the best authenticated case we have seen of the truly pensile style of nest.
It is said to be extraordinarily large for so small a bird; but that need not surprise us when we learn that as many as ten creamy-white eggs, blotched with brown and lavender, are no uncommon number for the pensile cradle to hold.
Their peculiar manner of protecting their pensile nests, by hanging them from the extremities of the lofty branches of an elm or other tall tree, enables the bird to rear its young with great security, even in the heart of the city.
Each builds a pensile nest, or places it in the fork of the slender branches of a tree.
They were of the species known as the "pensile weaver-bird.
Their nests are semi-pensile and usually placed in mesquite trees not more than ten or fifteen feet from the ground.
A pensile structure, often hanging eight or ten inches below the supporting rim, and swaying to and fro with every breeze.
A pensile structure of strips of bark, grasses, etc.
