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Deudrocolaptine bird — Anumbius acuticaudatus — ■ 

 much infested by an Ornitliomyia, a pretty, pale 

 insect, half the size of a house-fly, and elegantly 

 striped with green. It is a very large parasite for 

 so small a bird, yet so cunning and alert is it, and 



Pirewood-gathcrer and Bird-dy. 



SO swiftly is it able to swim through the plumage, 

 that the bird is unable to rid itself of so un- 

 desirable a companion. The bird lives with its 

 mate all the year round, much of the time with its 

 grown-up young, in its nest— a large structure, in 



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