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out, and have thriven well in a wild state, bidding 

 fair permanently to establish this charming little 

 bird in our distant colonies. Some of the birds 

 have built a nest, and to Mr. Burton I am indebted 



(From a Photograph by W. H. Clarke, Wellington, N. Z.} 



for a photograph of the wonderful structure they 

 have woven. It is evidently built in the fork of a 

 branch, and shows very little of that neatness of 

 fabrication for which this bird is noted in England. 



