Abstract

The Trustees of the Australian Museum have, besides many other valuable birds forwarded through the Curator, Dr. Ramsay, to the Cambridge Museum of Zoology, sent two well preserved spirit specimens Pedionomus torquatus, and Dr. Ramsay has more than once expressed the wish that I should determine the affinities of this peculiar bird. Although I have much pleasure in making the following communication, I do so with some reluctance, because of the incomplete state of my investigations. Two intact specimens of Pedionomus would be of course sufficient for an extensive and amply illustrated monograph

 
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Bibliographic Data

Short Form
Gadow, 1891, Rec. Aust. Mus. 1(10): 205–211
Author
Hans Gadow
Year
1891
Title
Notes on the structure of Pedionomus torquatus, with regard to its systematic position
Serial Title
Records of the Australian Museum
Volume
1
Issue
10
Start Page
205
End Page
211
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1975.1.1891.1259
Language
en
Date Published
31 December 1891
Cover Date
31 December 1891
ISSN (print)
0067-1975
CODEN
RAUMAJ
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Digitized
23 July 2009
Reference Number
1259
EndNote
1259.enw
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