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THE 



BIRDS 



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AUSTRALIA 



BY 



GREGORY M. MATHEWS 



MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' 

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IBIS. 



1911, p. 176. We have now before us, the first part of this new 

 work on Australian Birds, which is the more welcome as that of 

 Gould has been long out of date, and we shall now be able to form 

 a clear opinion on the validity of any species or subspecies that has 

 been described since his day, and to get a more comprehensive grasp 

 of the avifauna of the Commonwealth than is possible when the literature 

 was scattered. 



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