Australian Museum Journal On the seasonal changes in the plumage of Zosterops caerulescens
- Shortform:
- North, 1896, Rec. Aust. Mus. 2(7): 98–100
- Author(s):
- North, Alfred J.
- Year published:
- 1896
- Title:
- On the seasonal changes in the plumage of Zosterops caerulescens
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 7
- Start page:
- 98
- End page:
- 100
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.2.1896.1208
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 31 January 1896
- Cover date:
- 31 January 1896
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 11 September 2009
- Reference number:
- 1208
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (92kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (414kb PDF)
Abstract
In describing Zostercps westernensis of Quoy and Gaimard in the "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum," Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe makes the following observations :— "An Australian specimen has been described, and it is extraordinary that a bird which seems to be widely distributed on that continent should so much have escaped notice, the only allusion to the species that I can find in Mr. Gould's work being a passage where he mentions that some specimens of Z. Coerulescens have the throat wax-yellow. It seems to be the Z. Westernensis (Q. & G.), a species re-instated in the system by Dr. Hartlaub (J. f. O. 1865) p. 20."
With a view of solving the mystery why so common a species should have been overlooked by most writers, I have given this subject my attention for the past two years, by careful observation and the collecting of a number of specimens of Zosterops found in the neighbourhood of Sydney.