Transcriber's Note:

From 'Wikipedia':

"Dr John Albert Leach (19 March 1870 - 3 October 1929) was an ornithologist, teacher and headmaster in the state of Victoria, Australia.

Leach was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Creswick Grammar School (where he was dux), Melbourne Training College (1890)and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated B.Sc. in 1904, M.Sc. in 1906 and in 1912 obtained his doctorate for research in ornithology.

Leach was a regular writer and broadcaster on natural history subjects and introduced it into the school curriculum.He was President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) 1922-1924 and Editor of its journal The Emu 1914-1924 and 1928-1929.He was a member of the British Ornithologists Union and a corresponding fellow of the American Ornithologists Union.Leach was also member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.

He was instrumental in founding the Gould League of Bird Lovers in 1909 with Jessie McMichael. He is best known as the author of An Australian Bird Book,the first edition of which was published in 1911, and of Australian Nature Studies in 1922. He also part-authored a series of Federal Geography books,and worked on the Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia second and revised edition, published by the RAOU in September 1926.

Leach had been preparing two books before his death, one of these was a collection of weekly radio broadcasts he made on 3LO in the mid 1920s....

Among his contributions to ornithology was the relationship between the Australian Magpie, butcherbirds and currawongs in the family Cracticidae,now sunk as a subfamily into Artamidae.

This book is a field guide. The pages were divided vertically, with thetabular matter on the top half, and the Lecture on the bottom half ofthe page.

The ebook has been re-arranged so that the separate parts have asmoother flow. The top parts of the pages have been left intact, butthe bottom parts have been collected together and moved, so thatthe Lecture text for each ORDER precedes the tabular listing anddescriptions for that ORDER.

The only exception is for ORDER XXI.

ORDER XXI.—Perching-Birds—contains 11,500 species, more thanthree-fifths of the world's 19,000 birds. It has been arranged intosets of suitable groups of FAMILIES, to make it easier to access.

NAMES RECENTLY AMENDED (located after the INTRODUCTION).

It seems important to have these new names available, so they havebeen added to (e.g.)

20 Slate-breasted Rail ....

as [~20 Rallus pectoralis.]

so:

20 Slate-breasted Rail (Short-toed), Lewin Water-Rail, Eulabeornis (Hypotaenidia) brachypus, A., T., Auckland Is. =vt. Eur. Water-Rail.
[~20 Rallus pectoralis.]

See also the explanatory notes in the PREFACE, and in the PREFACE TOTHE SECOND EDITION.

"The number at the right side of the page is the length of the bird ininches (from the tip of bill to the tip of tail)." ...

so:

1
1

2* Mallee-Fowl, Lowan, Native Pheasant, Pheasant (e), Leipoa ocellata, N.S.W., V., S.A., W.A.

Stat. r. mallee scrubs        24

Like a small turkey; neck light fawn-gray; back, wings spotted white, black, brown; f., smaller.

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