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'ilic imroauctioii of the European ironcy-bee into Xcw Zcalaml 
hae also produccl very unlooked-for effects on tl.e honey-eating 
b rds of that country. Not only has it appropriated the U 
essary or lo sustentetion of llieso birds, but lurking in tho 
blossoms which they visit to collect the honey, it 1ms inllfcled its 
b upon their brusli-tiiipcd tongues with fatal effect. To this 
/^h nd Bell-bml (-Anttonm ,M,mura), which formerly lilled the 
loiost with Its music, is cliiefly attributed. 
Hut It IS not by (juadrupeds and insects alone that mischief is 
bwng wrought in various parts of the world. Havin- already 
etion of Still more strangers to restore, according lo his own ideas, 
le 0(,m ibnuin, and has recourse to still more introductions. This 
tlie / “saoemtions, is one of tho first iinimrtcd ; 
10 icsull IS, timt in various parte of tire world it has bcLme a 
1 - laidy in constitution, readily adapting itself to circunistaiices, 
uulbe«‘“f 7,“.''"“' l>i‘f«. it «oon increases in 
unibeis, and drives troni the field the native biids witliout con- 
fer, mg any eiiuivalcnt. Mr. Moseley, in the ‘ Challenger,’ found it 
ii ute at Iionie at Melbourne, where it is taking its revenge upon 
flodtuhr it’ <l"'■ouring fto 
with the 1 airote in tl.e trees and bushes, .and steals the food on 
ns 10 .X. lb, 8), speaking of tho efforts of the Acclimatisation 
f>uc.etythe.v,.,.r,.troducing<< useful birds,” whicl. efforts appear 
to be distasteiul to the colonists, says i “Tile irascible tone o/tlie 
fleicrs, whose letters in.iy be seen weekly in the local papers, is 
caiwd by the following facte, -tlie Sparrows and Yellow-tamme,^ 
V ich are now devastating the young grain crops, &a, Imve 
Mt Wine accustomed to the country, nor has tho liabit of feedim- 
n „rain which they learned on the passage out left them • it mav 
even be handed down from the parant bhds to their ^0“.: out” 
. imilai complaints come from other parts of the world, 
wl,„l'“l T’r Misenous fauna of the 
yto Tn ■•‘Ptlyeharaetcrizod 
one 01 living fossils, .3 rapidly disappearing (it is needless to 
