Author: John Gould

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-03

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9780260203212

Excerpt from Handbook to of Birds of Australia, Vol. 1 of 2 Some few other genera, such as Gmucalus, Ariamus, and Halcyon, are represented in the Indian Islands, on the peninsula of India, and even in some portions of the continent of Asia; and many more genera, and in some instances the same species, extend to New Guinea. The productions of this latter country are, in fact, so similar to those of Australia, that, zoologically speaking, they cannot be separated. In writing thus I, of course, include the southern country of Tasmania, but not New Zealand or its satellites, Lord Howe's, Norfolk, and Phillip Islands, and other adjacent specks in the ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.