The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [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.]...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Morton Allport, 1862-04 [62.04.00d]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1860-9/1862/62-04-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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'.

[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.]