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form a very characteristic zoological feature of that region. 
More than one hundred and forty different species belong 
to the group, whereof the curious, black and yellow, warty- 
faced Honey-sucker (Meliphaga phrygia) may be taketi as a type. 
They are not absolutely contined to Australia, but extend into 
Fig. 105. 

The Ruby-throated Humming-bird (Trochilus colubris). 
the islands of the Pacific, while the largest member of the group, 
known as ‘‘ the Parson Bird,” has its home in New Zealand. 
Long and slender bills are also characteristic of those most 
beautifully coloured of all Birds—the Humming-birds, from 
amongst which we may select the Ruby-throated one (Z’rochilus 
colubris) as our example. There are, at the least, four hundred 
