| The Birds of Australia | |
| Author: | Gracius J. Broinowski |
| Illustrator: | Gracius J. Broinowski |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Australian birds |
| Genre: | Fine illustrated book |
| Publisher: | Charles Stuart & Co: Melbourne |
| Pub Date: | 1890-1891 |
| Media Type: | Print with chromolithographic plates |
The Birds of Australia is an illustrated book depicting Australian birds. It comprises six parts (often bound as three volumes) of 303 full-page, folio-sized, chromolithographed illustrations of over 700 species of Australian birds, with accompanying descriptive text. It was authored by Gracius Joseph Broinowski of Sydney, Australia and published in the early 1890s.[1]
In 1987, 37 of Broinowski's illustrations were reproduced by the Broinowski Publishing Co of Perth, Western Australia in a limited edition of 850 numbered copies: