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Hartlaub's “Birds of Madagascar”

Nature volume 17, pages 9–10 (1877)Cite this article

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THE excellent review, exhibiting traces of a master's hand, of the above-named useful work, which appeared in NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 498) prompts me to offer some remarks on the ornithology of Madagascar and its neighbouring islands, and to take exception on two points therein laid down.

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    ALFRED NEWTON

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NEWTON, A. Hartlaub's “Birds of Madagascar”. Nature 17, 9–10 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017009b0

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