Part 2

It seems important to have these new names available, so they have been added to (e.g.)

=20 Slate-breasted Rail= ....

as [~20 Rallus pectoralis.]

so:

=20 Slate-breasted Rail= (Short-toed), Lewin Water-Rail, Eulabeornis (Hypotaenidia) brachypus, A., T., Auckland Is. =vt. Eur. Water-Rail. [~20 Rallus pectoralis.]

See also the explanatory notes in the PREFACE, and in the PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

"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)." ...

so:

1 1

=2* Mallee-Fowl=, Lowan, Native Pheasant, Pheasant (e), Leipoa ocellata, N.S.W., V., S.A., W.A.

Stat. r. mallee scrubs 24

Like a small turkey; neck light fawn-gray; back, wings spotted white, black, brown; f., smaller. Seeds, ants.

This means there is one genus of Mallee-Fowl in the world, and it is found only in Australia. It is listed in this book as Bird number 2, which has a colored illustration, indicated by the asterisk, *.

It is stationary (not migratory), rarely seen, lives in mallee scrubs, and is 24" long.

It resembles a small turkey; its neck is light fawn-gray; its back and wings are spotted white, black, and brown; the female is smaller; and it feeds on seeds and ants.

Note (From NOTE following "PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION."):

A.--Australian Region (from Wallace's Line to Sandwich Islands and New Zealand, see map p. 10).

'Sandwich Islands' is an old name for Fiji.

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=2= Mallee-Fowl =3= Stubble Quail =4= Brown Quail =6= King Quail =8= Painted Quail =11= Plain Wanderer =14= Diamond Dove =16= Bronzewing Pigeon

AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD BOOK

A Pocket Book for Field Use

J. A. LEACH, M.Sc.

First-class Honorman and University Exhibitioner and Scholar in Biology; Organizing Inspector of Nature Study, Education Department, Victoria; Member of the Council of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union; Vice-President of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria; &c.

With Introduction by FRANK TATE, M.A., I.S.O.

Director of Education, Victoria.

Published by arrangement with the Education Department of Victoria.

SECOND EDITION