OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA. 



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and eats many young birds of different species that would 

 have grown up to be placed in Part I. 



Australia, a zoological sub-region of the Australian region, 

 has five types of Kingfishers, which, for our present purpose, 



Leach Kingfisher. 



may be divided into " water '^ and " land " fishers. The 

 water birds are again divided into {a) short-tails, (6) long-tails ; 

 and the land birds into {a) saw -like bills, (6) giant bills, 

 (c) normal bills. It is under (6) of the second section our 



