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Painting With Plumage
"WESTERN."
Those of you who have read the
memoirs of the late Sarah Ber[?]
must be intrigued by her reference to
"the vast prairies where thousands of
brilliantly plumaged birds sometimes
blotted out the sun." These "prairies"
were the great open spaces of Western
Queensland, which, when the late prima
donna viewed them, must have been
clothed in luxuriant Mitchell and
Flinders grasses, the altermath of
bounteous rains. Innumerable flocks
of budgerigars, their variegated colours
ranging from the brightest yellow to
the richest green, and countless
squadrons of galahs, clothed in greye
and pink, were the birds referred to,
as they swerved and circled, temporarily
clouding the sun. In springtime only
con the panorama be seen, for to
nature's boundless aviary of the plains,
these brilliantly coloured birds come to
woo and mate. —"
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