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birds perform migrations of any fixed extent. An item not to be lost sight 
of is its absence from Tasmania, which indicates that it has originated since 
that island was separated and, moreover, that its origin has been Central 
Australia and it has never taken to a coastal life. In every way it is a peculiar 
form that deserves more study than it has yet received. 
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