APPENDIX. 355 



No. IV. 



CATALOGUE OF THE BIEDS 



OF THE 



NORTH-EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA AND TORRES STRAIT. 



Lists exhibiting the occurrence of Australian Birds in 

 particular districts are instructive^ as shewing the range of 

 species over the various parts of an extensive district, and 

 as bearing upon, and to my mind confirming, to a certain 

 extent, the views of those geologists who consider Australia 

 to have formerly appeared as a cluster of three or four 

 islands, subsequently connected since the tertiary epoch so 

 as to form what may now be considered as a continent. 

 With the kind assistance in determining the species of Mr. 

 Gould, who has elsewhere published similar lists * of the 

 birds of other parts of Australia, the annexed Catalogue has 

 been made out. All the species contained therein have 

 passed under my own observation, and I have distributed 

 them in three columns : the first includes that portion of 



* In the works of Strzelecki and Eyre, and Introduction to the Birds of 

 Australia. 



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