Australians! Your wonderful Lyre-Birds, your marvellous Bower-Birds, your gorgeous Birds of Paradise, your Mound-Builders, your flute-noted Magpies, your charming Whistlers, your beautiful and intelligent Cockatoos, your glorious Parrots--the pets of the bird world--your Superb-Warblers, your varied, valuable, and attractive Honey-eaters, and your giant Laughing-Kingfisher are here for your enjoyment and appreciation. No other people has your privilege of knowing these birds in their native state. On the other hand, you enjoy most of the privileges of dwellers in other lands, in addition to your own, for "every widely-spread family of birds but two is found in Australia. The only notable absentees are Vultures and Woodpeckers." Be proud of your heritage, and pass it on uninjured. Though that, alas! is not possible, yet you may pass on at least the remnant that still survives the "blessings and advance of civilization." NOTE. Having obtained the approximate length of a bird, look for it on the following pages. Compare the bird before you with the half-tone and colored illustrations, and, if necessary, the written description:-- PAGES 3-5 inches, 14, 121, 123, 124, 131, 133, 142-145, 153, 155, 166, 167, 169, 179. 5-7 inches, 13, 15, 22, 23, 26, 27, 44, 49, 89, 110, 111, 120-125, 127, 129, 131, 142, 144-146, 151, 152, 155, 168-172, 177, 178. 7-9 inches, 13, 15, 17, 18, 27, 31, 42, 43, 45, 47-49, 89, 102-107, 109, 125, 129, 131, 145, 147, 150-152, 154, 169-173, 176, 177, 186. 9-11 inches, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31, 40, 43, 44, 49-51, 61, 102, 103, 107, 109, 127-129, 131-133, 145, 148, 149, 151, 170, 171, 173, 175, 187. 11-13 inches, 28-30, 34, 43, 46, 49, 80, 82, 83, 93, 101, 102, 105, 107, 109, 130, 149, 175, 187, 188. 13-15 inches, 17, 18, 23, 25, 28, 29, 35, 43, 45, 47, 80, 83, 85-88, 91, 92, 100, 101, 103, 107, 126, 127, 149, 174, 175, 188. 15-17 inches, 18, 23, 28, 29, 45-47, 64, 65, 67, 73, 82, 85, 87, 91, 93, 189. 17-20 inches, 16, 23, 25, 27, 28, 35, 40, 41, 43, 61, 63, 65, 67, 73, 82, 83, 91, 93, 104, 105, 149, 188, 189. 20-23 inches, 35, 41, 45, 51, 61, 63, 66, 67, 72, 73, 81, 91, 188. 23-25 inches, 13, 25, 41, 45, 60, 61, 65, 69, 81, 82, 84, 85, 90, 111. 25-30 inches, 25, 33, 41, 53, 60, 65, 67, 69, 89, 112. 30-35 inches, 29, 32, 33, 53, 60, 63, 69, 71, 81. Over 35 inches, 12, 31, 32, 51, 52, 62, 68, 70, 71, 81, 112. INDEX (Colored Plates). Frontispiece. =2= Mallee-Fowl =3= Stubble Quail =4= Brown Quail =6= King Quail =8= Painted Quail =11= Plain Wanderer =14= Diamond Dove =16= Bronzewing Pigeon Page 19 =21= Pectoral Rail =22= Aust. Spotted Crake =26= Black Moor-Hen =27= Bald Coot =30= Hoary-headed Grebe =67= Crested Tern =71= White-faced Ternlet =72= Silver Gull =73= Pacific Gull Page 38