Abstract
IN your issue of January 11, Mr. H. Farquhar wrote drawing attention again to the incongruity of associating New Zealand with Australia in a zoo-geographic sense. He correctly insists that the New Zealand fauna is not most closely allied to that of North-east Australia (Queensland). It is significant that those writers who advocate the alliance of New Zealand to Queensland have not seen either country, while those who deny such relationship have studied or travelled in both or either areas. No observer who had a first-hand knowledge of the two countries could agree with Dr. Sclater that “it is probable that the whole fauna of New Zealand has been originally derived from” Australia.
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