Australian Birds in Linnean Society Collection, 1827

Vigors, N.A. and Horsfield, Thomas. A description of the…
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Vigors, N.A. and Horsfield, Thomas. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society, with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. [London, 1827]. Quarto, pp. 170-331, binder's cloth., Part 1, all published, extracted from the Transactions of the Linnean Society.Whittell, p.734: 'An important article in which the birds collected by George Caley and Robert Brown are named and described'.

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