THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
The bird killed on February 1 5th, 1769, was sketched by Parkinson, as 
noted above, and the name P. velox being attached, it would be best to 
restrict it to that form. The description does not agree with either P. coohii 
or P. Imco'ptera, though presumably the birds obtained in September, 1769, 
October, 1769, January, February and April, 1770, would belong to those 
forms, or even to P. nigripennis Rothschild, or P. axillaris Salvin. The 
beautiful diagnosis is certainly referable to a bird similar to these, and I 
feel certain that a bird fully answering to Solander’s details will later be 
recognised 
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