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form a very characteristic zoological feature of that region. 

 More than one hundred and forty different species helong 

 to the group, whereof the curious, black and yellow, warty- 

 faced Honey-sucker (Meliphaga phrygia) may be taken as a type. 

 They are not absolutely confined to Australia, but extend into 



Fig. 105. 



The Euby-throated Humming-bird ( Trochikis cohihris). 



the islands of the Pacific, while the largest member of the group, 

 known as " the Parson Bird," has its home in New Zealand. 



Long and slender bills are also characteristic of those most 

 beautifully coloured of all Birds — the Humming-birds, from 

 amongst which we may select the Euby-throated one (Trochilus 

 colmhris) as our example. There are, at the least, four hundred 



