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Mr. Hobley informed me that in his garden where the 

 Mauritian Hemp grows freely, this shrike uses the sharp 

 bayonet-like points of the leaves for impaling victims, 

 such as caterpillars, grubs, grasshoppers and the like. 

 Another observer interested in this bird watched it use 



The Sunbird (Nectarinia reichenowi), male and female. The hen 

 is busy with the flowers of a salvia, and her companion has 

 come to see what she is about. The middle pair of tail 

 feathers is greatly elongated. 



a eucalyptus tree for this purpose, and saw it fix 

 caterpillars and slugs on the broken ends of twigs and 

 small branches. On some occasions the bird would 

 exercise great force in impaling its victims. 



The Sunbirds are the flower-haunting birds of the 



