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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
In response to requesrs from beginners, a table has been added 
on page 190. This table shows the page on which a bird of a 
certain size may be found. 
Pending the completion by the Royal Australasian Ornitholo- 
gists' Union of its official Check-list of the Birds of Australia, 
the scientific names have been left as in the first edition. 
NOTES. 
Where one number is placed over another at the left side of the 
page, the lower number denotes the number of species of that 
genus found in the world; the upper denotes the number of species 
found in Australia and Tasmania. 
The number at the right side of the page is the length of the 
bird in inches (from the tip of bill to the tip of tail). 
The families of birds known are numbered consecutively, thus, 
F. 11, F. 12, and so on. The number after a family name denotes 
the number of species recorded from Australia and Tasmania. 
The distribution of the species of each family amongst the six 
zoogeographical regions is shown thus: 
F. 17. COLUMBIDAE (2), WOOD PIGEONS, Passenger- 
Pigeon, Rock-Dove, 119 sp.— 41 (40) A., 25(17)0., 
18(10)P., 19(17)E., 4(0)Nc., 24(20)N1. 
This should read: Family number 17 of the world's birds, 
COLUMBIDAE (two of which are found in Australia and Tas- 
mania) contains the Wood Pigeons, including the Passenger- 
Pigeon (of North America) and the Rock-Dove (of Europe). It 
comprises 119 species, of which 41 are found in the Australian 
Region, 40 of them being confined to this region; 25 are found in 
the Oriental Region, 17 being confined to it; 18 are found in the 
Palaearctic Region, 10 of which are not found outside the regioai; 
19 have been recorded from the Ethiopian Region, 17 being pecu- 
liar to that region; 4 have been recorded from the Nearctic 
Region, none of which is restricted to the region; 24 have been 
recorded from the Neotropical Region, 20 being peculiar to it. 
The name in black type is the name accepted by the Austral- 
asian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1898, and 
amended by the ''names" sub-committee of the Royal Australasian 
Ornithologists' Union, 1911. This name should be used to 
denote the bird. Many local names are given, so that a person 
knowing a bird by one of these may discover its proper name. 
A. — Australian Region (from Wallace's Line to Sandwich 
Islands and New Zealand, see map p. 10). 
O. — Oriental (Indian) Region (India to Wallace's Line). 
P. — Palaearctic Region (Europe, N.W. Africa, and Northern and 
Western Asia, except Arabia). 
E. — Ethiopian Region (Arabia and Africa, except N.W.). 
Nc. — Nearctic Region. ''The A.O.U. Check-List of North 
American Birds, 1910" has been followed in making this 
North America, less Mexico). 
