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Remarks on foregoing List of Australian Birds. 



The authority refers to the species name only. — The first column 

 indicates the No. of the species in this list, for future reference ; 

 the third, the No. of the species in Gould's Handbook, or 

 references to other works ; the remainder show the distribution 

 of the different species over Australia ; the last to the South 

 portion of New Guinea, and has been compiled from collections 

 made at Yule Island, Katow, Port Moresby, Fly River and 

 China Straits, &c, by D'Albertis, Goldie, the Macleay Expedition, 

 Pettard and Broadbent, and the Revs. Messrs. McFarlane and 

 Lawes. Since the publication of Mr. Gould's Handbook in 

 1865, the territorial boundaries of the different colonies have 

 altered considerably, so that the range of the different species 

 can be but indefinitely expressed by such, wide terms as "Victoria," 

 " Queensland," " New South Wales," &c. ; large portions of the 

 country formerly known as N. S. W., now belong to Queensland ; 

 and many other changes have taken place. I have therefore 

 given the particular localities in which most of our large 

 collections have been made, purposely to show the spread of 

 certain species. In instances, where the particular species has not 

 to my knowledge been obtained in these localities, a more com- 

 prehensive habitat, as the names of the Colonies in which they 

 are found, has been resorted to. 



Where any confusion through the choice of names is likely to 

 occur, that previously in use among Australian ornithologists has 

 been given in italics. 



The small sketch map accompanying this list shows the boun- 

 daries of the Colonies as they now stand, and the position of 

 the other localities mentioned. 



The number of species enumerated in Mr. Gould's Handbook 

 as inhabiting Australia in 1865 was 672 in all. This number has 

 been increased of late years by the discoveries of new species, and 

 by occasional visitors from other countries, to 744, most of which 

 are enumerated from North-east Australia or Queensland. 



