tailor-bird

This was the second nest I had seen resembling that of the tailor-bird of India.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Darzee, the tailor-bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-tikki-tavi did the real fighting.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

The tailor-bird of India makes a still more curious nest: it actually sews, using its long, slender bill as a needle.

Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader John L. H��lshof

The bag is lined with soft, downy material, and in this the tiny eggs are laid -- tiny indeed, for the tailor-bird is no larger than the hummingbird.

Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader John L. H��lshof

"Perhaps you can tell me where my fortune is?" he said to a tailor-bird who was sewing some leaves together to make a nest.

Uncle Wiggily's Travels Howard Roger Garis 1917

"It might be up in the air," said the tailor-bird.

Uncle Wiggily's Travels Howard Roger Garis 1917

As a matter of fact, the tailor-bird does not venture quite up to the plateau, but it is perfectly at home at all elevations below 6000 feet.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

The famous tailor-bird (_Orthotomus sartorius_) is the best known of the warblers distinguished on account of architectural skill.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

At Coonoor the tailor-bird (_Orthotomus sartorius_) is nearly as abundant as it is in the plains.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

These are the tailor-bird and the ashy wren-warbler.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916