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CHAPTER XVII. THE ACANTHYLLIS AND THE PARTRIDGE.
Belonging to the genus of birds known as the “vitiparr?,” there is one whose nest is formed of dried moss,[177] and is in shape so exactly like a ball, that it is impossible to discover 211 the mouth of it. The bird known as the acanthyllis, makes its nest of a similar shape, and interweaves it with pieces of flax. The nest of one of the woodpeckers, very much like a cup in shape, is suspended by a twig from the end of the branch ............
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