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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 



scarcely as large as our common wren, and glowing with bril- 

 liant colours, the whole of the upper part being deep, glossy 

 blue-black ; the throat, breast, and under tail coverts of a fiery- 

 scarlet; and the abdomen pure white. It has a very sweet 



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SWALLOW DICiEUM. 



though low and mward note, so faint as scarcely to be audible 

 from the tops of the trees, but continued for a long time 

 together. 



