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the entrances. The propensity of these birds to pick up 

 and fly off with any attractive object, is so well known 

 to the natives, that they always search the runs for any 

 small missing article, as the bowl of a pipe, &c., that may 

 have been accidentally dropped in the brush. I myself 

 found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly- worked 

 stone tomahawk, of an inch and a half in length, toge- 

 ther with some slips of blue cotton rags, which the birds 

 had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of 

 the natives. For what purpose these curious bowers are 

 made is not yet, perhaps, fully understood ; they are cer- 

 tainly not used as a nest, but as a place of resort for many 

 individuals of both sexes, which, when there assembled, 

 run through and around th . bower in a sportive and 

 playful manner, and that so frequently, that it is seldom 

 entirely deserted." 



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On the raven-stone, 

 And his black wing: flits 

 O'er the milk-white bone ; 



