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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 



are grass and wool, intermingled with the pure white cotton 

 of certain flowers. As the reader may see, by reference to the 

 illustration, it is hung from a very slender twig, and only sus- 

 pended at opposite extremities of the rim, the tree selected 



LANCEOLATE HONEY-EATER. {^Plectorhyiichtcs luHceolatus.) 



being the myall, or weeping acacia. The nest is rather small 

 in proportion to the bird, and is very deep, so that when the 

 mother is sitting on her eggs, or brooding over her young, she 

 is obliged to pack herself away very carefully, her tail projecting 

 at one side of the nest and her head at the other. 



