THE BUSH HUT 



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down, in the tangle of bracken, wire-grass and 

 creepers near the waterside. The birds betrayed 

 their nests by scolding any intruder. It was the same 

 with some other species. Often, the nest of a pair of 



WHITE - BROWED SCRUB -WREN IN NEST. 



White-browed Scrub-Wrens [Sericornis frontalis] was 

 discovered through the fussy concern of its owners. 

 Blue Wren-Warblers [Malurus cyaneus] were equally 

 foolish, and Brown Tit-Warblers or Thornbills [Acan- 

 thiza pusilla] led us to dome-shaped nests in the 

 bracken, not once, but fifty times. 



