“Tamil:
தூக்கணங்குருவி குரங்கிற்குப் புத்தி சொன்னாற்போல்.”
“English Translation:
As the hanging-nest bird gave advice to the monkey.The story referred to is graphically told in, I think, Panchatantra. It is as follows: On a cold rainy day a monkey chilled by the inclemency of the weather approached a tree on the branches of which were hanging numerous nests of this ingenious bird. One of the inmates addressed his simian denizen of the forest expressing surprise that a creature endowed with limbs so well fitted for the purpose did not fabricate a suitable place of shelter. The monkey felt the reflection implied in the admonition, and unable to restrain his indignation, jumped into the tree and destroyed the residence of his innocent friend.In my journeys on foot in varions parts of this country I have frequently seen the nests of the pendulous bird. On a tree not many miles from Trincomalie on the eastern coast of Ceylon I once saw perhaps thirty or forty nests hanging from one tree not twenty feet high: they resembled large pears.”,