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Dollar Birds

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Subject: Dollar Birds
From: Reg Clark <>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:34:36 +1100
Hello all

Well said Anthea, I have always understood that the name originated that way. Just to illustrate further my father used to refer to Pied Currawongs as Dollar Birds for the same reason and told us that they commonly so called when he was a child, which would have been around 1900.

Reg

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