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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS 



be in the Occident ; now it has completed tlie geographical 

 chain, encircling the continent. 



Amongst the various notes I hold on this species I would 

 like to quote those in a letter to me from my correspondent, 



Fig. 35. Tawny Frogmouth, female and male (twilight position). 

 One-sixth natural size. 



Mr. J. A. Hill, a naturalist-farmer in the Wimmera. Mr. 

 Hill says: — ''On account of the nocturnal habits little is 

 known about it. Certainly it is a most inoffensive bird, and 

 as far as my observation goes it lives chiefly on insects and 



