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it is we find all the greys in B. The heat of the 

 north has given a golden effect to all the White- 

 eyes of the north. 



These two sections again vary, this time along 

 each line from east to west. It is climatic in con- 

 junction with the different types of country. The 

 variety of timber and the composition of the earth 

 play their parts. In the north it is a thousand miles 

 of mangrove, a. b. c. d. In the south it is the 

 thousand miles of low growing vegetation that 

 fringes the Great Australian Bight, individually 

 altering previous effects in plumages f. g. i. Again 

 in a different way the massive forests of Gippsland 

 stamp the feather dress with the hue of their own 

 territory. The Grey-backed White-eye (Z. gouldi) 

 freely travels over the Bight, the Grey White-eye 

 (Z. dorsalis) within Gippsland. 



HERONS 



1. Inland; 2. Sea. 



Heron-like birds form an order and get together 

 as a most fascinating group : Ibises, Spoon-bills, 

 Egrets, Storks and True Herons. They all have 

 of necessity long necks because every one has long 

 legs. The Jabiru of the back waters is the only 

 Australian stork. 



True Herons include egrets and bittern ; some of 

 which keep to sea coasts, while others associate on 

 inland swamps. 



