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AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD BOOK. 



ORDER X. — OHARADRIIFORMES. 



F. 34. Chionididae, Sheathbills, Kelp-Pigeons, 3 sp.— 2(2)E. 



1(1)N1. 

 F. 35. Thinocorytliidae, Seed-Snipe, Seed-Plover, 5 sp. Nl. 

 F. 36. CHARADRIIDAE (44), Waders, Plover-like Birds, 



202 sp.— 68(29)A., 75(5)0., 84(2)P., 70(24)E., 



65(3)Nc, 74(28)N1. 



1 76 Turnstone, Sea-Dottrel, Calico (Beach) Bird, Arenaria 



2 Interpres, cos. Mig. c. shore 

 Winter plumage, mottled brown, black; summer plumage 



in far north; black and white conspicuous; short bill 

 black; legs, feet, orange; f., duller. Sand-hoppers, 

 shellfish. 



Petrels, but show a heavy, labored flight, varied by a short soar. 

 As the two centre tail feathers project beyond the rest, the birds 

 can be readily identified as they follow a steamer for tit-bits. 



The fifty Australian birds included in the important order of 

 Waders are remarkably like such birds found inhabiting other 

 regions of the globe, shore conditions apparently being somewhat 

 similar the world over. It is interesting to note that thirteen 

 of the forty-four Australian members of this family of Plover- 

 like birds are also found in Britain, and that most of the others 

 are direct representatives of closely-related birds found in other 

 countries. No less than twenty-eight of these birds are merely 

 visitors here, for they breed away in the far North. Many even 



