. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. n AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 58 Royal Albatross, D. regia, A., T., Seas. c. ocean 44 Lately separated from 57, because young have white down instead of gray; adult has no zigzag lines; f., sim. Food see 57. 59 Black-browed Albatross (MoUymawk), D. melano- phrys, S. Oceans, England (once). ocean 32 Darwin thought that the most numerous of birds was a Petrel. One of great interest is the "Mutton-Bird," or Short-tailed Petrel. This romantic bird breeds by the million on Cape Woolamai an
. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. n AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 58 Royal Albatross, D. regia, A., T., Seas. c. ocean 44 Lately separated from 57, because young have white down instead of gray; adult has no zigzag lines; f., sim. Food see 57. 59 Black-browed Albatross (MoUymawk), D. melano- phrys, S. Oceans, England (once). ocean 32 Darwin thought that the most numerous of birds was a Petrel. One of great interest is the "Mutton-Bird," or Short-tailed Petrel. This romantic bird breeds by the million on Cape Woolamai and other places about Bass Strait. Just as the mallee farmer is dependent on his annual wheat harvest, so the remarkable colony of people living on Cape Barren Island is entirely dependent on the annual Mutton-Bird harvest. They claim to take about a million and a half birds each year. The number is probably much exaggerated, for Littler, in his valuable Birds of Tasmania, gives the number as 555,000 for 1909, valued at about £4000. Bass and Flinders were glad to replenish their stores with young Mutton-Birds. Flinders calcu- lated that one flock of these birds he met in Bass Strait contained 132,000,000 birds. They lay but one egg, so one would expect the Petrel to be long-lived. We found a closely-similar bird nesting on Mast Head Island, Capricorn Group. The three southern Diving Petrels, forming the next family, are much smaller than the common Petrels. They are expert divers, and are found mainly in the far Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Leach, John Albert, 1870-1929; Horn Scientific Expedition (1894). Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs
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