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warmer portions of the colony it attacks, in great force, fruit 

 trees, and leaves their fruit in a most unsatisfactory state, 

 unless carefully guarded^a guard that is tedious and costly. 

 The birds are so tame that nothing short of wholesale 



Musk Lorikeet. 



slaughter — a most undesirable proceeding — seems to keep 

 them away from orchards. 



In the spring the flocks break up into pairs for the rearing 



