Show tree death trap for birds queensland australia has a curious tree which ensnares and kills insect life and sometimes birda birds also A traveler says of it the seed vessels of the queensland tree ahmoo of the blacks Brunon Bruno lana niana which are produced on spreading leaf less panicles exude a remarkably vis cid substance approaching birdlime in consistency and evil effect sad Is the fate of any bird which blundering in its flight happens to strike against any of the many traps chich the tree in unconscious malignity hangs out on every side in such event the seed clings to the feathers the wings become fixed to the sides the hapless bird falls to the gro ind and as it struggles heedlessly gathers more of the seeds to which leaves and twigs adhere until by aggregation it is in closed in a mass of vegetable debris as firmly as a mummy in its clothes |