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t<> . n.oiint.-r in his journey towards the centre shall be overcome. This beautiful and elegant 



l.ir.l i- on,-, ,f it- ,1,-m/. n- | | l; n... j, ,, (,,., .,,. ,, ,. n>ss ,|,, ,.,,,,, (....uniaia range* and breed 

 on th.- tlat.s i--t...-n ih.-m and the sea ; still, tin musual occurrence, and the few thus 



fouml, rompiir.-.! to t!,-- thousands observed on th.- plains -t ; , t. !,mg from the interior tide 

 of the mount :, in-, pnn.-s that they have, as it were, overstepped their natural bound:, 



"It- lan-. i- .xt.li.l.il ox. -i th.- w h.ili- <>f the M.uth.-rii |-,ltlo||of Aiislnilla, an.l hahig 



stri.-ti\ a ii,i_-i:,t..r\ Lii.l, it makes a simultaneous moM-m.-nt -..mir.xai.i to \\ithin on.- hundred 

 miles of the coast in September, arriving in the York <li-ni. t near Swan River, in Western 

 Australia, precisely at the same time that it appears in the Liverpool plains in the eastern por- 







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tion of the country. After breeding and faring a numerous progeny, the whole again retire 

 northwards in February and March, but to what degree of latitude towards th>- tropics they 

 ii I tht-ir way I have not been able satisfactorily to ascertain. I have never received it from 

 Port Kssington or any other port in the same latitude, which, however, is no proof that it 

 does not visit that part of the comim-nt. -in-- it i-* im-m-ly the country near the coast that 

 has yet been traversed. In all pmlKthility it will be found at a little distance in the interior 

 wherever there are situations suitable to its habits, but doubtless at approximate period* 

 to those in which it <><. -m^ in New South \\ales. 



"It would appear to be more num. T.. us in the eastern division* of Australia than in th 

 western. During one summer it was breeding in all the apple-tree (Angapkora) flats on the 

 Upper Hunter, as well as in similar districts on the Pe>l and other riven which flow northward. 



" After the breeding season is over, it congregate* in numerous flocks before taking its 

 departure. I have seen the ground quite covered by them while engaged in procuring food ; 



