[Mr. M. ALLPORT said that he had been informed by Dr. Mueller that the native birds were found at Melbourne to imitate the notes of the imported birds.]
Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania held on 6 May 1863, in Mercury (Hobart), 21 May 1862, p. 2. The comment was made during the discussion of a paper on the bird genus Zosterops which, Allport said, 'were very clever in imitating the notes of other birds'.
Please cite as “FVM-62-04-00d,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on