Select Specimens from nature, of the Birds Animals, &c, &c, of New South Wales, Collected and Arranged by Thomas Skottowe Esqr. The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. Newcastle New South Wales 1813

21 ROBBINS These two little Birds possess all the friendly and innocent appearance of the sweet Bird of the same name in England. I have been given to understand they are the cock and hen of the same species, of this I am not Naturalist enough to determine, but as they however go in this Country by the same Name, and their Habits appearing similar I have not parted them in this work. Native Names Red .... Kundi Yellow ....Munga

22 [Watercolour illustration of Robbins]

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OWL

This Bird in point of Ugliness is far before the one of the same Name in England. Its Habits so far as regards its Seclusion from the Day, and its Solitary flights by Night are the same, but from the smallness of the passage in its Throat it may I think be fully acquitted of the barbarous Custom of preying on harmless little Mice? The Eye and Beak are extremely large, while the Tongue on the Contrary is minutely small.

Native Name Yaa-ine

24 [Watercolour illustration of Owl]

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The Masked Plover

This Extraordinary looking Bird resorts in Swampy flats and on the sides of Creeks and Rivers and has received the General appellation of Plover, to which I have added Masked from the singular yellow Skin, or Membranous substance, which covers the fore part of the Head, and which it rises and lays flat at pleasure; it also possesses a Remarkable Horn or Claw on either wing, which I imagine is its Weapon of defence; tho it possesses no similarity whatever in its appearance to the Plover of England, yet its Habits are somewhat the same.   Native Names Kidgiri Kidgiri Bundarandange