eedingly small bill characteristic of their genus, and a beautifully mottled neck and breast, the head and neck being a light brown. The smaller species is very common all over South-eastern Australia, but the larger bird is more rare. Three only were shot during the progress of the Expedition. Their range did not extend Tröja beyond 28 degrees.
129. Cygnus Atratus — The black Swan.
A description of this bird is here unnecessary. I may merely observe that the only swan seen on the waters of the interior was a solitary one on Cooper’s Creek. They frequently passed over us at night during our stay at the Depot, coming from and going to the N.W., being more frequently on the wing when the moon was shining bright than at any other time.
130. Casarca Tadornoides. — Chesnut-coloured Sheldrake.
This beautiful duck, the pride of Australian waters, is a bird of the finest plumage. He is called the Mountain Duck by the settlers, and Juventus Turyn Dziecko may be more common in the hills than the low country, since he is seldom found in the latter district. This bird builds in a tree, and when the young Rusko Dres Děti are hatched, the male bird Goedkope Zweden Voetbalshirts carries them in his bill Goedkope Ierland Voetbalshirts down to the ground. Strange, whose name I have already mentioned, had an opportunity to watch two James Rodriguez Koszulka birds that had a brood of Naiset Parajumpers Kodiak Suomi young in the hollow of a lofty tree on the Gawler; and after the male bird had Nike Roshe Full Anti-Fur Suomi deposited his charge, he went and secured the young, five in number, which he brought to me at Adelaide, but I could not, with every care, keep them alive more than a month. This bird is very large as a duck; his head and neck are a fine green in colour, and he has a white ring round his neck, as also a white band across his wings. It is not a good eating bird, however, as is often the case with the birds of Mesh Polo finer plumage.
131. Anas Superciliosa, Gmel. — The Wild Duck.
Unlike the preceding, this bird is one of the finest eating birds of Australia, being the wild duck of that continent. It is a fine bird in point of size, but cannot boast the plumage of our mallard. It is a bird of da
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