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another without any apparent change of form to do so, 

 and if, while in the pendent position, it be easier to make a 

 somersault in order to arrive safely a few inches below, it 

 does so, and proceeds to the business of providing 

 provender or engaging in battle without loss of time. The 

 nests are neatly made and cup-formed. One I found to be 

 almost completely lined with a layer of sheep's wool, and 



Fig. 54. Lunulated Honey-eater and Nest. One-fifth natural size. 



ornamented exteriorly by wool borrowed, stolen, or rightly 

 taken from a house near the tree in which the nest was 

 carefully hidden upon the higher twigs of the highest 

 bough. A lofty position is not always chosen, but you 

 would not be successful if you formed a rule to look low. 

 Eucalypt trees seem to satisfy them, both as regards food 



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