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lews. Sanderlings, and Dunlins; Whimbrels, Green- 

 shanks, Sandpipers and larger Plover; Godwits of 

 the east and Godwits of the west. The wonder is 

 that the multitude of the eastern birds makes south 

 to New South Wales, and the western birds go to 

 South Africa, while all have nested in close vicinity. 

 Map 61 b, c, is the treeless land with reindeer 

 mosses, frozen a foot beneath the surface. Yet 

 that surface is crowded with thawing berries, the 

 food of countless birds — the Australian Little 

 Stint, Snow Finches and Siberian Blue-throats. 

 The last winters in India and Africa, and it will be 

 most exciting if it is ever discovered in Australia 

 because it is the loveliest of things. 



TASMANIA 



Area 5 



Tasmania has a wonderful ocean bird-fauna, as 

 remarkable though not as conspicuous as that of 

 the Queensland coast. Petrels travel in vast flocks 

 and penguins in shoals. Circumpolar birds pass in 

 the winter and mostly nest away in the summer. 

 Smaller albatrosses have their beaten tracts in 

 certain portions of this sea and in the roaring 

 forties. 



Land birds annually migrate to Queensland or 

 to a lesser extent, remain in the neighbourhood of 

 their birth. Some keep entirely to the forest, 



