Australian Museum Journal Notes on the structure of Pedionomus torquatus, with regard to its systematic position

Shortform:

Gadow, 1891, Rec. Aust. Mus. 1(10): 205–211

Author(s):

Gadow, Hans

Year published:

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:

English

Date published:

31 December 1891

Cover date:

31 December 1891

ISSN:

0067-1975

CODEN:

RAUMAJ

Publisher:

The Australian Museum

Place published:

Sydney, Australia

Digitized:

23 July 2009

Reference number:

1259

EndNote package:

EndNote file

Title page:

Title page (202kb PDF)

Complete work:

Complete work (802kb PDF)

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