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pair of robins built in a bush near the house, and success- 

 fully reared a family of five young ones. 



Warblers and parrots and pigeons are so numerous in 

 all parts of Victoria that it is impossible to notice them 

 here in detail. Probably the abundance of woods account 

 for their numbers, for Victoria, on the whole, is a well- 

 timbered colony, and what native wood has been destroyed 

 has in a great measure been replaced by European and 

 American timber-trees. 



