HISTORY 



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NOTICE. 



OWING to unexpected delay and to the return of my collector, Henry 

 Palmer, from the Sandwich Islands, I have been compelled to omit the 

 Plates of two species, as well as the extracts from Henry Palmer's 

 diary, which were intended for this Part; but the Plates and the 

 Text will appear in the Third Part, which I trust will make amends 

 for this Part being smaller than the first. 



WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



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(though not of fruits alone as Dr. Gadow says), which seem to prove its Turdine relations. 

 Moreover, many anatomical details, carefully pointed out by Dr. Gadow in 'Aves Hawaiienses,' 

 pt. ii., are in favour of its Turdine relationship. The relation to the Prionopidce, suggested 

 by Sharpe in the ' Catalogue of Birds,' has very little to commend it, especially since that 

 author no longer upholds the family Prionojoidce, as he shows in a footnote on p. 8G of his 

 excellent 'Review of recent Attempts to Classify Birds ' (1891). His opinion that some of 

 the so-called PrionopidcB might be united with the Flycatchers, while others might belong 

 to the Laniidce, but that more and closer investigations of the subject are needed, seems 

 to be very just. 



Unfortunately none of the recent explorers have found the nest and eggs of Phaornis, 

 by means of which might be shown its true place in the system. 



