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On the ornamented nests of humming-birds, Gould, 'Introduction to the Trochilidae, 1861, p. 19. On the bower-birds, Gould, 'Handbook to the Birds of Australia, 1865, vol. i. pp. 444-461. Having made these preliminary remarks on the discrimination and taste of birds, I will give all the facts known to me which bear on the preference shewn by the female for particular males.
Soc.; London, 1840, p. 94; also Handbook to the Birds of Australia , vol. i. pp. 444-461. See also Darwin's Descent of Man , pp. 381 and 413-414. Certain Humming-birds also, according to Gould, decorate their dwellings with great taste.
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