This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...the Indian Islands and Australia, none are to be found in South America, Polynesia or New Zealand. 269. Corvus Coronoides, Vig. $ Horsf.... Vol. IV. PI. 18. This is the only species that has yet been discovered in Australia. Family? Genus Neomorpha. This form is strictly Polynesian, and the species confined to New ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...the Indian Islands and Australia, none are to be found in South America, Polynesia or New Zealand. 269. Corvus Coronoides, Vig. $ Horsf.... Vol. IV. PI. 18. This is the only species that has yet been discovered in Australia. Family? Genus Neomorpha. This form is strictly Polynesian, and the species confined to New Zealand. 270. Neomorpha Gouldii, G. R. Gray.... Vol. IV. PI. 19. Genus Pomatorhinus. The members of this genus range from India throughout all the islands to Australia, but are not found in Africa or Polynesia; three species are comprised in the fauna of Australia. Much diversity of opinion exists among ornithologists as to the place this group should occupy in the natural system; by most writers they have been placed with the Meliphagidce, but having had ample opportunities of observing the Australian species in a state of nature, I am enabled to affirm that they do not assimilate in any degree with those birds either in their habits, actions, economy or nidification, in all which particulars they differ from every group of birds that has come under my notice. 271. Pomatorhinus temporalis Vol. IV. Pl. 20. Turdus frivolus, Lath.? 272. Pomatorhinus rubeculus, Gould.... Vol. IV. PI. 21. 273. Pomatorhinus superciliosus, Vig. fy Horsf. Vol. IV. PI. 22. Family MELIPHAGIDJE. By far the greater and most prominent portion of the botany of Australia consisting of only two or three genera of trees--the Eucalypti, Banksice, &c.--we should naturally expect its ornithology to comprise some great groups of birds destined to dwell thereon, and such we find to be the case, the true Honey-eaters and the Honey-feeding Parrakeets being remarkably numerous; the former tribe of birds comprise many species which appear to be arranged by nature into minor groups, ea...
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