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TRICKS OF THE AUSTRALIAN PHEASANT.
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heels. He goes in search of the intruder, and finds after a long walk that the 'pheasant' has been making game of him. A man using a cross-cut saw hears somebody doing the same thing, and after searching unsuccessfully for him, discovers that it is the pheasant's performance."
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Wallace's standard-wing birds-of-paradise, male and female.
Frank summed up the rest of the ornithology of Australia as follows:
"The great southern continent has many varieties of the parrot