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they associate with the curlews and godwits in 

 thousands. 



According to the Russian calendar they pass 

 Vladivostock northwards on a regular date. I 

 once had the experience of being in this eastern 

 city on a dark stormy night when the black air was 

 full of straying birds with anxious calls. 



The Red-cap is the smallest of our dottrels; the 

 Double-band about the largest, the band being a 

 protective device. The sandy coloured young of 

 these birds run as soon as hatched. The origin of 

 nest building is in this family. 



DISTRIBUTION 



a. Height : Highland and Lowland Parrots. 



b. Breadth : Spine-billed Honeyeaters. 



Thousands of birds go up the mountains in the 

 spring of the year. The King Lory with its brush 

 tongue is one example, map 53, a^, the northern 

 race being a''. It is a highland bird in summer and 

 a cold lowland bird in winter. 



The Mallee parrots are the birds keeping to the 

 dry lowlands throughout the year. 



The Spine-billed Honey-eater is broadly dis- 

 tributed and found in the same country as the King 

 Parrot, ascending the mountains to the same alti- 

 tude and returning to the depths in Autumn. This 

 is their Bathic migration in the eastern range. In 

 Western Australia the same genus has a white 

 brow as the clan recognition mark. In this we have 



