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The Sparrow-like Birds 



FIG. 221. i. Brown-headed Munia, Muni a brunneiceps. 



2. Intermediate White-eye, Zosterops intermedia. 



3. Black-fronted White-eye, Zosterops atrifrons. 



destroying the so-called American blight (an aphid Schizoneura lanigera] that 

 it has won for itself the name of Blight-bird and as such is highly prized, though 

 when it levies tribute on the ripe cherries, grapes, and plums it is, perforce, a 

 pest ! It is this same species which, within the last fifty years, has extensively 



