Abstract
IN a lecture on the birds of Victoria delivered to the local Field Naturalists' Club in September, 1910, and published in vol. xxvii., No. 8, of the Victorian Naturalist, Mr. J. A. Leach directed attention to the extraordinary, and apparently unique, richness of Australia in birds. Not only, he remarks, has the country its own peculiar types of interesting birds such as emeus, malleebirds, black swan, laughing jackass, cockatoos, many parrots, lyre-birds, bower-birds, &c. (some of these being common to New Guinea), but it likewise contains representatives of every widely spread family of birds with the exception of vultures and woodpeckers.
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L., R. Birds Notes . Nature 85, 557–558 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085557a0
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