OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA. 



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Each Tit that owns a house in an orchard is worth more 

 than its weight in gold, so valuable are the services of this 

 insectivorous genus. On no account whatever, except for 

 strictly scientific purposes, should this bird be killed or driven 



Yellow-rumped Tit. 



from a garden. Especially must we consider that as a worthy 

 labourer it demands nothing for its hire, but expects only to 

 be left in peace. That surely is easily dispensed from the 

 storeroom of our benevolence. Let me give one word of 



