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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
recurvirostris Lafresnaye. Although this was abnormally developed 
type specimen, I have received specimens and find that there is a 
tendency in this direction in the birds from this Island. 
Still more recently Brasil, in a most excellent paper on the 
of New Caledonia,” has separated the New Caledonian bird as a 
subspecies, S. s. canacorum, and this I hope also to deal with later 
anticipate confirmation of Brasil’s action. 
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