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THE BIEDS OF ATJSTBALIA 



The Frogmoutlis are beautifully soft-plumaged birds, with a 

 motley of grey, brown, black and white markings. In the 



Mounted. 



Tawny Frogmouth: Podargus strigoides. 



D. Le Souef. 



coloration then they resemble the dead bark of the bough on 

 which they sit. To render it still more difficult of detection, 

 the bird does not sit across the bough, but along it, assuming the 



