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special species, the Regent Bird, and Oreocincla and 
Cinclosoma. 
Among the large Family of AmprLip# there is but one 
Australian genus, Pardalotus, but it constitutes a peculiar 
Australian group. In the family DickuRip& the genus Artamus 
furnishes eight species, and is almost entirely Australian. 
The Lanrip#, CAMPHEPHAGID#, and MuscicaPID# are 
rich in species of the genera Grauculus, Camphephaga, Pachy- 
cephala, Colluricincla, Falcunculus, Manucodia, Rhipidura, 
Seisura, Myiagra, Micreca, Monarcha, Gerygone, Smicornis, 
Petroica, Melanodryas, Pecilodryas, Drymodes, Eopsoltria, 
and Menura, the last the most remarkable of all Australian 
genera. The weaker forms of the DENTIROSTRES, which may be 
included in the Family Sytviip#, are also numerous, and the 
genera are almost entirely Australian ; they include the genus 
Malurus, Cisticola, Acanthia, Geobasilea, Ephthianura, &c. 
Of the ALaupID# there are only two species known ; of the 
STURNID# one only. The FrinGILLID#, the most numerous 
Family in other parts of the world, are almost unknown ; the 
few species there are belong to the Ploceide section and to the 
genera Estrelda, Munia, Donacola, Emblema, Poephila. Of 
the Corvip# there are but four species, and these are of mostly 
strictly Australian genera. The lovely Family of the Para- 
DISID does not, except in the instances of the three species of 
Prilorhis (the Rifle Birds) reach so far south as Australia. 
The Order COLUMBZE is rather richly represented as to 
numbers, and remarkably so as to beauty of plumage. In the 
north or tropical parts, the Polynesian group comprised in the 
genus Ptilopis is represented by four species; a few large fruit 
pigeons of varying genera are also found abundantly in Northern 
Queensland, while the more temperate parts of Australia 
possess a number of species of Ground Pigeons of the genera 
Phaps, Geophaps, Lophophaps, Ocyphaps, Geophelia, &e. 
In the next Order, the GALLIN 4, Australia shows a 
greater departure from the rest of the world than in any other 
Order of the Aves. There is really nothing in common with 
any other country, except the possession of a few species of 
Quails, and these mostly are only occasional birds of passage, 
and come probably from Central Asia. The Prrrociipa, 
the TETRAONIDH, with the exception just mentioned, the 
PHASIANID#, and all the well known Gatiin of other 
countries are entirely absent, and the Order is represented by a 
family of extraordinary appearance—the Megapodide, or 
Mound-builders. This family comprises three genera— Leipoa— 
one species inhabiting the arid wastes of the interior; T’alegalla— 
one species confined to the East Coast, as far south as New 
South Wales; and Megapodius—two species, limited to the 
extreme north. Of this last genus, species have been found on 
