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subsequently applied to it by Swainson, who, in both volumes 

 of his ' Classification of Birds,' replaces it among the VulturidcB, 

 in order, apparently, to establish his own views respecting that 

 family. 



The term Aledura having been previously employed for a 

 group of Flycatchers, Lesson's genus Talegallm, which was 

 published prior to Swainson's Catheturus, is necessarily the one 

 adopted. 



How far the range of the Wattled Talegallus may extend 

 over Australia is not yet satisfactorily ascertained ; it is known 

 to inhabit various parts of New South Wales, from Cape Howe 

 to Moreton Bay, and Mr. Macgillivray informed me that he had 

 killed it as far up the east coast as Port Molie ; the assaults 

 of the cedar-cutters and others, who frequently hunt through 

 the brushes of Illawarra and Maitland, had, however, nearly 

 extirpated it from those localities when I visited the colony 

 in 1838, and it probably does not now exist there; but I 

 believe it is still plentiful in the dense and little-trodden 

 brushes of the Manning and Clarence. I was at first led 

 to believe that the country between the mountain-ranges and 

 the coast constituted its sole habitat; but I was agreeably 

 surprised when I found it in the Liverpool brushes and in the 

 scrubby gullies and sides of the lower hills that branch off 

 towards the interior. 



It has often been asserted that Australia abounds in ano- 

 malies, and in no instance is the truth of this assertion more 

 fully exemplified than in the history of this very singular bird, 

 respecting the situation of which in the natural system much 

 diversity of opinion, as above noticed, had hitherto prevailed. 

 It was consequently one of the birds which demanded my 

 utmost attention during my visit to Australia ; and, imme- 

 diately upon its remarkable habits becoming known to me, I 

 published an account of them in the first volume of the ' Tas- 

 mauian Journal' for 1840. The remarks therein contained, 

 and which are recapitulated below, comprise all that is known 



