Many of the _Orioles'_ nests are also deserving notice. The _black and yellow Oriole_, inhabiting South America, has a pendent nest, shaped like an alembic; it is affixed to the extreme branches of trees; sometimes, it is said, so many as four hundred nests are found hanging on the same tree. The _Philippine_ and _Pensile Grosbeak_ make also very curious nests. In concluding this account of the nests of birds, I may notice here the nest of the _Hirundo esculenta_, or _Esculent Swallow_, an inhabitant of China and the Islands of the Indian Ocean. The nest consists of a gelatinous substance, in shape resembling an apple cut down the middle. The nests are found in great numbers together, and are by the luxurious Asiatics made into broths, and otherwise cooked, and are esteemed one of the greatest dainties of the table; they are also occasionally used for glue.--_Jennings's Ornithologia_. [1] We are pleased therefore to commence our Supplementary Sheet with such a volume as the present, which we have reserved for this purpose. The feelings which it must engender in the reader will be doubly grateful in these troublous times of strong political excitement: they enjoin "peace on earth, and goodwill towards men." the Divine antidote to the storms of conflicting interests and passions, and the balm which heals the thorny wounds of the world, that cross every path and tear the finest sympathies of our nature. It adds, moreover, a pleasant variety to the contents of our sheet, and alternates with the vicissitudes of enterprise, in the progress of infant liberty in the New World, as in the Memoirs of the patriot _Miller_;--the daring and recklessness of crime, as in the vivid sketch of _First and Last_;--the picturesque country and ceremonies of Arabia and its religious people, as drawn by _Burckhardt_;--and the architectural embellishment of the Metropolis, as shown in _Britton's Picture of London_. [2] In the MIRROR, dated March 1, 1828, we noticed "Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne, is one of the most delightful household books in our language, and we are surprised at the rarity of such works." The publication of the _Journal of a Naturalist_, early in March, 1829, is "a coincidence." [3] Philosophers and wits have written on this subject. Sir Thomas Brown, who wrote a book of _Vulgar Errors_, remarks with great seriousness that the man "who could eradicate this error from the minds of the people, might prevent the fearful passions of the heart, and many cold sweats taking place in grandmothers and nurses"--Swift lets fly the shafts of satire in these lines.--