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h a h t ri 1 I P Ut m o^tlfosef colonies :it?is represented Jbyi‘a> nearly allied species whose
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Wales 8M M M B 1 M H M ^ f lo m m o n e s f l birds of New South
f . i>?i, ■ . |§ y 1, afeiver4rfequentty constituting- the boundary of its habitat
ovei.wh.ch-rtpWely,passes,-that I g g M f M stayWthe’cbunfry, saw'the bird on the o ib 'fl r
I very numerous I behcve * » ’fever s e e K a t h r e a t s cloflSn^the. borders of D’Entrecastean*
M the M I ° f 1 ■ B « W b ■ island those districts being T n h S
by the m m y t a a n whose greater size and M H plumage are in beautiful accofdance I t
•tfesse vast and as yet unexplored forests of .evergreen Eucalypti. More delicate in its structure and for
E 1 P ,n 9 1 ,the J 3 S S f S resorts to, the open parts of the country,’ such t
,-tWls^tog grassy foils and plains bordered and studded here and there with large trees or behs of low
H i im t5*mS> | B j | b™ 0tRS °fwhich> particularly those M H H this beautiful bird may
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.. . , * 5!™ te of a sandy nature, small plains, open spots among the hills, and thinlv
tim to e d country where grass abounds, constitut^hs'.peculiar and 'natural habitat of this bird • hence it I
not found to the north of the Derwent, where the H H is 1 g W e n t character I but I I numerous
throughout; t ^ ^ t ^ g f ^ ^ a n d between Hobart Town and. Launceston, where small companies may
constantly he seen resorting to the public roads, like the Sparrow in England, and upon being d Z b e d by
4 e passer-by they merely fly off to the nearest treefcdlto the rails of the wayside fences. Scries like these
fill the semWtoo^of no ordinary description, and expitetke greatest astonishment in those
who have recently awved in the’country; thenoy^ty, however,'as I have observed,in numerous instances
soon wears away and a caged lark, l in n e t- o ^ f e b ir d ; the. land of M birth wpuld be highly cherished
and valued, while the beautiful productions of .the island would pc passed by except to
deal out destruction among them, with no.sparing hand, for- s o u g h t injury they may t o e inflicted
Upon the ru in g co rn . The above remarks irgCs» wore particularly-to Van Diemen’s Land, but apply with
||§ fp ° rCe t0 ew ®out*1 ^ ales’ w^ere the:bird inhabits all situations similar in character to those above
referred to. It breeds in great abundance in Van Diemen’s Land and’New South Wales; it is found in
p e a t numbers | the district of the Upper Hunter, and was formerly very n ^ - o o s at Paramatta, particularly
m the neighbourhood of Rose Hjllf whence its naipe. It lays from seven to t e ^ a ^ u l white eggs in