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has its common species. That in the western State is the 

 Green-backed Silver-eye (Z. gouldi). The first of all Silver- 

 eyes was described from a specimen obtained in the extreme 

 south-east, and the largest species now occupies the small 

 island of Norfolk. 



Silver-eyes and Nest. 



The family flocks are generally eight in number, and, as 

 they travel through the orchards a slight warfare is made 

 upon them, for in spring and summer they feast upon small 



