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Smith, Andrew 1837. Characters of a new form in the Fringillidae; with a description of the only species yet referrible to it. Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology (conducted by Edward Charlesworth) new series, 1 (no. 10): 535-536.

Characters of a new form in the Fringillidae; with a description of the only species yet referrible to it

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Characters of a new form in the Fringillidae; with a description of the only species yet referrible to it. Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology (conducted by Edward Charlesworth), new series. 1 (no. 10): 535-536. [October 1837]
Signed ‘By Andrew Smith, M.D., Surgeon of the Forces, Superintendent of the late Expedition for exploring the Interior of South Africa.” Reprinted in 1838 (107).
Smith described a new avian genus Philetairus, which included Philetairus lepidus.

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