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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania
It must be borne in mind that this is a Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, remarks therefore on each species are necessarily very brief, but in order to some what relieve the monotony of one technical description following another, and where the eggs have been previously described, I have given in full in some instances, papers contributed at various times by Dr. Ramsay to the Ibis, entitled Notes on Birds breeding in the Neighbourhood of Sydney, and in addition given extracts, which I thought might prove of interest, from other papers furnished by the same author to kindred societies and publications.
Of the 469 species here described, with the exception 'of those of 34 taken from Mr. Gould's Handbook to the Birds of Australia, I have personally examined those of every species, and need hardly state that they have been taken only from thoroughly authentic specimens.
Appended is a list of those birds of which, as far as is known, no authentic information has been recorded of their having been found breeding in Australia or Tasmania, but which have been found in other parts of the world, and fully described by different authors these being only visitors or stragglers to Australia, are not included in this work.
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