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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 
scarcely as large as our common wren, and glowing with bril- 
liant colours, the whole of the upper part being deep, glossy 
blue-black ; the throat, breast, and under tail- coverts of a fiery 
scarlet] and the abdomen pure white. It has a very sweet 
though low and inward note, so faint as scarcely to be audible : 
from the tops of the trees, but continued for a long time 1 
together. 
