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in the definition of bird species, any more than we can in 

 other matters. To call our present subject a "black and 

 white wood-nymph " would not do even in Australia, for 

 the simple reason that we have another such "nymph " in 

 the north-west of the continent that is specifically different 



Fig. 



Hooded Robin, male and female. One-fifth ratural size. 



only in a slight degree. To call a bird so in Africa would 

 lead to a hopeless tangle, as there are a dozen such. The 

 classical baptism [Petroeca hicolor, Yig. and Hors.) is regis- 

 tered all through the civilized world in a " fuller " way 

 than most of my readers are registered. By the above 



