“ CHAPTER WV & 
®IRDS. 
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‘ W, Saville-Kent, Photo. 
“DULCE DOMUM.” 
HE Avifauna of Australia is too ex- 
tensive a theme to deal with com- 
prehensively in a volume of the 
present pretensions. The late Mr. John Gould’s magnificent Monograph and _his 
smaller Manual upon this subject may, moreover, be appropriately recommended to all 
those who desire to possess a fuller knowledge of the wealth of bird-life that is so 
eminently distinctive of the Australasian Continent. In the present Chapter the writer 
proposes to draw attention to a few special types only with which he made an 
intimate friendship during his residence at the Antipodes. The recorded account of 
these foregatherings will, he trusts, result in enlisting an increased share of public 
interest in their favour. 
By concentrating attention upon some selected species and making its varied 
aspects and habits a special study, one is astonished to find in the long run what a 
different conception of the animal is arrived at from that where the acquaintanceship 
