A HUNDRED BIRD SANCTUARIES 

 IN AUSTRALIA 



VICTORIA is the south-eastern province of Australia. 

 The fine and up-to-date city of Melbourne is its capitol, 

 and it possesses a Zoological Garden worthy of the progress- 

 ive people who made, and maintain it. Dr. Dudley Le 

 Souef is its director ; and he is a zoologist, author and wild 

 life protector of whom all Australia may well be proud. His 

 books on the wild life of Australia are most satisfactory. 

 Melbourne also has a fine Museum. 



Hereafter Victoria should be known as the Province of the 

 Hundred Bird Sanctuaries. Except in the extreme east and 

 the extreme west, they are dotted all over the place, and 

 three of them are huge patches of red, that fairly hit you 

 in the eye. For convenience they have been numbered for 

 us, by Mr. Rosenhain, and the big ones are as follows: 



No. 48. Wilson's Promontory and Cor- 

 ner Inlet 91,000 acres 



No. 67. State Forests in Countries, 

 Evelyn, Anglesey and Buln 

 Buln, about 500,000 " 



No. 87. Grampians State Forest 275,000 " 



In reality, the total number is 109, and in all save 13 the 

 areas are in the hundreds of acres. Many are over 1,000 

 acres, and quite a number run from 1,000 to 13,000. 



Mr. O. W. Rosenhain, of Melbourne, who furnished all 

 these facts, had the pleasure of placing upon the map, 

 through his initiative and efforts, Sanctuary No. 100, Hat- 

 tah Lakes, of 3,500 acres. 



In addition to all this, the region around Melbourne "for 

 20 miles from the post office is a sanctuary." 



As an object lesson to the world in sanctuary-making, 

 Victoria is Great ! Across the widest of the seven seas, we 

 salute her. 



