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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 
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Mr. Hobley informed me that in his garden where the 
Mauritian Hemp grows freely, this shrike uses the sharp 
bayonet-like points of the leaves for impaling victims, 
such as caterpillars, grubs, grasshoppers and the like. 
Another observer interested in this bird watched it use 
The Sunbird {Nectarinia reichenowi), male and female. The heii 
is busy with the flowers of a salvia, and her companion has 
come to see what she is about. The middle pair of tail 
feathers is greatly elongated. 
a eucalyptus. tree for this purpose, and saw it fix 
caterpillars and slugs on the broken ends of twigs and 
small branches. On some occasions the bird would 
exercise great force in impaling its victims. 
The Sunbirds are the flower-haunting birds of the 
