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Along the coral beaches the Sea Terns gather 

 shells to make the name of nest. Some birds 

 appear aesthetic enough to gather the more attract- 

 ive shells. 



The northern Gannets are numerous on the sand 

 banks in spring, where they nest in rookeries. 

 These are the vegetated coral-sand banks with 

 growing pig-face, coarse grass, and low shrubs. 



If disturbed, thousands of Terns will rise in a 

 vast flock, leaving more thousands of young upon 

 the ground. Early in the morning the parent birds 

 go out to fish as a matter of food supply. 



This mass of species is distributed very much 

 as shown in Map 9. The strait between the islands 

 of Bali and Lombok is not a barrier to sea birds 

 as it has proved with land birds. 



AFFINITY OF CAPE YORK PENINSULA 



AND NEW GUINEA 

 (Plate 1, Fig. 31; Plate 2, Fig. 7) 



New Guinea is an island of more than ordinary 

 interest, because of its position and mountain 

 chains. 



Eucalyptus forests stamp it as partly Australian 

 and Birds of Paradise connect it with Cape York. 



New Guinea has so large a list of wonderful 

 birds as to be a little world in itself. When one 

 considers the rich river flats, the hill slopes covered 



