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Rh those known as the blue-gum, feeding among the blossoms by extracting the honey, with their long tongues, from every flower as they pass.



Another species the same author describes as being fond of picking transverse holes in the bark of trees, between which and the wood it inserts its long tongue in search of small insects, which it draws out with great dexterity. The analogy which we find in this species with the Woodpeckers is interesting; and is not confined to this