HONEY-EATERS. 



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those known as the blue-gum, feeding among the 

 blossoms by extracting the honey, with their long 

 tongues, from every flower as they pass. 



WARTY-FACED HONEY-EATER. 



Another species the same author describes as 

 being fond of picking transverse holes in the bark 

 of trees, between which and the wood it inserts 

 its long tongue in search of small insects, which it 

 draws out with great dexterity. The analogy 

 which we find in this species with the Wood- 

 peckers is interesting ; and is not confined to this 



