Identifier: birdnotesns04fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of the least beautiful ofthe five species enumerated by Gould in his Birds of Aus-tralia, viz.. The Common, Helmeted, Silvery-crowned, Yellow-throated, and Sordid; all of which he places in the genusTropidorhynchus. For the first knowledge of this species of Tnipidorhipichiix, science is indebted to the late Mr. Bynoe, Surgeon of H.M. Surveying ship, Beagle, who, on my visiting Sydney, placed his specimens at my dis- posal ; after my retnrn other examples were sent to me by Sir GeorgeGrey. Bynoes specimens were all obtained during the Survey of the north-west coast, a portion of Australia, the natural productions of which are but little known ; and Sir George Gre^ys during his expedition into the interior, from the same coast Of its habits and economy nothing is known ; but as it is very nearly allied to the Common Friar Bird (T. coruiviilatuii), we may reasonably conclude that they are very similar. Description : Crown of the head silver;y-grey ; the remainder of the head Bird Notes.
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ritntu from life b,/ 11. WiUurd. Silvery-crowned Friar-Bird, f^owr hitrrcf^fmq Birds. 200 iiiiked, iuid of ;i l)l;i,, ; tail \\: tarsi 1, (C uih/x IVnuh of Aus^tralin ••Vol. 1.). A f;iirly oxtondod ;i((!u;iiiif;mro with fhi^ spooios, en-;il>h^s i)i(>, aftiM i(\uli)iir (louMs acooimt of th(^ Common FriarP.ifd, fl);ni which ho states fhcio aia^ f(n\ hiids morn familiarlyknown i)i N-S. A^^■^los, U^ draw the conoliisioti that tho Iiabitsand oro!iomy of lh(^ Silv(M-y rrownod and Common Friar Birdsmust lie vory similar. Oould duhs thom a remarkable g-enus,nnd T am assuiod that all who ci-ct an opportunity of viowin.gthose birds in tlio Wes;torn Aviary at the Zoo. will agree withhim: as T do affi>r havin.c: thom under observation in one of mybird-i-oom enclosures, and also in tho aviary. Vernacular nam

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