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STRANGE DWELLINGS . 
are grass and wool, intermingled with the pure white cotton 
of certain flowers. As the reader may see, by reference to the 
illustration, it is hung from a very slender twig, and only sus- 
pended at opposite extremities of the rim, the tree selected 
lanceolate honey-eater. {PlectorJ ynzhns laiiceolatus.) 
being the myall, or weeping acacia. The nest is rather small 
in proportion to the bird, and is very deep, so that when the 
mother is sitting on her eggs, or brooding over her young, she 
is obliged to pack herself away very carefully, her tail projecting 
at one side of the nest and her head at the other. 
