APPENDIX. 355 



No. IV. 



CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS 



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 Austraha 

 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. 



2 A 2 



