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New Guinea to travel south, either to the great 

 gold-fields of Western Australia, the copper-fields 

 of South Australia, or the country of the ancient 

 sea of North-West Victoria. It is in September; 

 their nesting season. 



Next March the numberless flocks will move 

 north again to New Guinea, just as the Chinese 

 birds in New Guinea move back to their own plots 

 in China, to nest. 



QUEENSLAND AND NORTHERN 

 TERRITORY 



Areas 1, 2, 3—7', 1\ V 



The State of Queensland is marvellously rich in 

 shore birds. This is due to its thousand miles of 

 adjacent coral reef, and good feeding grounds. Sea 

 birds and waders mass. On land there is a tropical 

 and an extra tropical fauna, each again being 

 divided into dry country and coast line faunas 

 (Map 8). 



Queensland has a great annual immigration of 

 birds from Papua, and a large emigration of another 

 set to Southern Australia. In the Spring and 

 Autumn, clouds of oversea migratory species pass. 

 Examples of migration are as follows : — 

 Extra Australian — Siberia to Tasmania, annually 

 via Queensland. 



