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From: rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising)
Subject: Night Parrot
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.162529.15156@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 16:25:29 GMT

I know nothing about Australian birds, but when I first saw this 
posting on the Night Parrot, I looked it up in my Slater Guide. 
It says: "...rare nomad in spinifex, samphire and bluebush plains
or rocky hillsides in arid interion; ... ; recent sightings in
Lake Eyre Bason."  So apparently it wasn't thought to be extinct.

Question for Australian birders, I am soon to go to Australia, and
I have lost my other Australian Field Guide (I think that it was a
Princeton guide).  Should I get another, or is Slater enough?
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