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Zoology, p. Thespelling is very various, but the first of the two above givenis the more correct etymologically. 291: A shaft sunk without any produce from it is a duffer. The nest isconstructed in a little chamber made of dry leaves and grass,and is very warm and comfortable; there is a second entrance ondry ground.

There are three views as to the origin of the word, viz. Styphelia, n. See under Nut. There are 120species, as set forth in Baron von Mueller's `Eucalyptographia,a Descriptive Atlas of the Eucalypts of Australia.