sentences:  Nectar is primarily taken from flowers with cups of stamens, brush-shaped inflorescences, or tubular flowers.The brown honeyeater will hover above small flowers while extracting nectar, perch on a stem for large single flowers, and, in the case of "Banksia" flowers, perch on unopened florets at the top of the inflorescence.Insects were most often gleaned from leaves or bark, and sometimes caught by sallying or taken from the ground.