Handbook to The Birds of Australia, Volume 1Intended by the author to serve as "a kind of handbook" to his folio work The birds of Australia, published in 1848. See Introduction, v.1, page 6, and Preface, v. 1, page v: "During that period [since publication of The birds of Australia] many new species have been discovered, and much additional information acquired respecting those comprised therein; consequently it appeared to me that a careful résumé of the entire subject would be acceptable to the possessors of the former edition, as well as to the many persons in Australia who are now turning their attention to the ornithology of the country in which they are resident." |
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Handbook to the Birds of Australia Emeritus Professor John Gould, (So,John Gould No preview available - 2015 |
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abdomen Aborigines Acanthiza adult band bill and feet bill black Birds of Australia blackish brown blotched bluish branches breast brownish black brushes buff buffy white centre chest coast Cobourg Peninsula Colonists colour crown dark brown deep difference ear-coverts eggs feathers female flanks food consists freckled frequently genus Gilbert Gould in Proc grasses greenish grey greyish brown greyish white ground habits head HONEY-EATER Horsf inches inhabits inner webs insects irides larger end larvæ Lath lines broad lines long Linn Liverpool range lores male Malurus mandible margined markings Moreton Bay neck nest olive olive-brown pale plumage Port Essington primaries Ptilotis reddish brown rufous rump seen sexes South Australia South Wales species specimens spot stripe Supp Swan River tail-feathers tarsi Tasmania throat tipped with white Total length Trans trees upper surface upper tail-coverts Western Australia wing-coverts yellow yellowish young Zool