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Boles, W., 1991. The origin and radiation of Australasian birds: perspectives from the fossil record. ACTA XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: 383-91. [Summary of fossil birds from Riversleigh and Murgon as well as others from the Australasian region] Boles, W.E., 1992. Revision of Dromaius gidju Patterson and Rich 1987 from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with a reassessment of its generic position. Natural History Museum Los Angeles County, Science Series 36: 195-208. [Technical redescription of D. gidju and recognition that on the basis of Riversleigh materials the species should be placed in a monotypic genus Emuarius, one close to the divergence between emus and cassowaries] Boles, W., 1993. The fabulous flexiraptor: a bird with a strange twist. Riversleigh Notes 22: 2-3. [Discussion of Pengana robertbolesi, a very extraordinary swivel-footed predator of Riversleigh's forests] Boles, W.E., 1993. A logrunner Orthonyx (Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Emu 93: 44-49. [Technical description of Orthonyx kaldowinyeri; an important palaeoenvironmental indicator because all modern species in the genus are strict inhabitants of rainforests] Boles, W.E., 1993. A new cockatoo (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae) from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, and an evaluation of rostral characters in the systematics of parrots. Ibis 135: 8-18. [Technical paper about Riversleigh's only cockatoo, somewhat like a corella, and is Australia's oldest parrot] Boles, W.E., 1993. Pengana robertbolesi, a peculiar bird of prey from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa 17: 19-25. [Technical description of the 'swivel-footed' predatory bird of Riversleigh's Sticky Beak Site, which may have been able to hook its leg backward into tree hollows to haul out delicious morsels of possum] Boles, W.E., 1995. A preliminary analysis of the Passeriformes from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with the description of a new species of lyrebird. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181: 163-70. [Formal description of Menura tyawanoides, a new lyrebird based on a carpometacarpus from the Early Miocene of Upper Site, Riversleigh; also a general discussion of other yet to be described passeriform birds of Riversleigh] Boles, W.E., 1995. The world's oldest songbird. Nature 374: 21-22. [Discussion of the significance of the Murgon passerines--the oldest in the world by almost 25 million years] Boles, W.E., 1997. A kingfisher (Halcyonidae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with comments on the evolution of kingfishers in Australo-Papua. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41: 229-34. [Description of the oldest known kingfisher from Australasia, possibly an early member of the Todiramphus lineage] Boles, W.E., 1997. Riversleigh birds as palaeoenvironmental indicators. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41:241-46. [Evidence from the birds about palaeoenvironmnents: several rainforest groups, one suggestive of open spaces and several uninformative] Boles, W.E., 1997. Hindlimb proportions and locomotion of Emuarius gidju (Patterson & Rich, 1987) (Aves: Casuariidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41: 235-40. [More material from Riversleigh of the oldest 'emu', with an attempt to reconstruct the hindlimb and mode of locomotion] Boles, W.E., 1997. Fossil songbirds (Passeriformes) from the early Eocene of Australia. Emu 97: 43-50. [This is the technical paper that supports the startling claim that songbirds from Murgon are the oldest in the world- 25 million earlier than any known from the Northern Hemisphere] Boles, W.E., Godthelp, H., Hand, S., Archer, M., 1994. Earliest Australian non-marine bird assemblage from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna, Murgon, southeastern Queensland. Alcheringa 18: 70. [Announces earliest modern birds from Australia other than penguins] Boles, W.E., Mackness, B., 1994 Birds from the Bluff Downs Local Fauna, Allingham Formation, Queensland. Records of the South Australian Museum 27: 139-49. [The assemblage of Bluff Downs birds, resembles that now found in Kakadu plus flamingo] Boles, W.E. 1998. A Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus from the Pliocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Emu 98: 32-35 [Announces earliest known Budgerigar, apparently same species as that living today] Judith H. Field and Walter E. Boles. 1998. Genyornis newtoni and Dromaius novaehollandiae at 30,000 b.p. in central northern New South Wales. Alcheringa 22: 177-188. [Announcement of modern Emu and extinct flightless dromornithid bird (youngest reliably dated record for family) from deposits with human artefacts] Boles, W.E. & Ivison, T.J. 1999. A new genus of dwarf megapode (Galliformes: Megapodiidae) from the Late Oligocene of central Australia. In Olson, S.L. (ed). Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: 199-206. Boles, W.E. 1999. Early Eocene shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) from the Tingamurra Local Fauna, Murgon, Queensland, Australia. In Baynes, A. & Long, J.A. (eds), Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 229-238, Boles, W.E. 1999. A songbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Oriolidae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa 23: 51-56. Aplin, K.P., Pasveer, J.M. & Boles, W.E. 1999. Quaternary vertebrates from the Bird's Head Peninsula, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, including descriptions of two previously unknown marsupial species. In Baynes, A. & Long, J.A. (eds), Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 351-387. Boles, W.E. 1999. The big picture. Wingspan 9: 16-19, 21.
Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 4: 1-42. Christidis, L. and W.E. Boles. 1995. Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Melbourne. 112 pp. Boles, W.E. 1989. A new subspecies of the Green backed Robin Pachycephalopsis hattanmensis, comprising the first record from Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 109: 119-121. Boles, W.E. 1988. Comments on the subspecies of Australian native and introduced finches. Emu 88: 20-24. Boles, W.E. and N.W. Longmore. 1988. The generic allocation of the Tawny crowned Honeyeater. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 221-223. Boles, W.E. and N.W. Longmore. 1983. A new subspecies of treecreeper in the Climacteris leucophaea superspecies. Emu 83: 272-275. Boles, W.E. 1983. A taxonomic revision of the Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla (Shaw) 1790 with description of a new subspecies. Emu 83: 51-58. Longmore, N.W. and W.E. Boles. 1983. Description and systematics of the Eungella Honeyeater Meliphaga hindwoodi, a new species of honeyeater from central eastern Queensland. Emu 83: 59-65. Boles, W.E. 1999. Comments on the sternal morphology of Australo-Papuan pigeons. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 119: 144-151.
Leeton, P.J., L. Christidis, M. Westerman and W.E. Boles. 1995. Molecular phylogenetic relationships of the Night Parrot (Geospittacus occidentalis). Auk 111: 831-841. Boles, W.E., N.W. Longmore and M.C. Thompson. 1994. A recent specimen of the Night Parrot Geopsittacus occidentalis. Emu 94: 37-40. Boles, W.E., N.W. Longmore and M.C. Thompson. 1991. The Fly-by-Night Parrot. Australian Natural History 23: 688-695. Blyth, J. & Boles, W. 1999. An expedition to the Murchison, Gascoyne and East Pilbara areas to search for Night Parrots, November 1997. Eclectus 6: 12-16
Boles, W.E. 1991. Management of natural history collections: Evaluation from the stakeholders' perspectives, in 'Where Are We Going?: Evaluation in Scientific & Cultural Institutions' Conference (ed. A. Skates, comp. H. Samios) Pp. 157-164. Longmore N.W. and W.E. Boles. 1990. A method of combined skin-fluid specimen preparation. Auk 107: 788-789.
Boles, W.E. and B. Tynan. 1995. Low altitude record of the Rufous Scrub-bird Atrichornis rufescens. Corella 19: 91. Boles, W.E. 1990. Plumage, eggs and nest building behaviour in the Rufous Whistler superspecies. South Australian Ornithologist 31: 35-38. Boles, W.E. 1988. Abnormal feather wear of the Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri. Australian Bird Watcher 12: 235-237. Smedley, D.I. and W.E. Boles. 1988. Sex and age characteristics of the Rufous Songlark Cincloramphus mathewsi. Corella 12: 14-18. Longmore, N.W. 1991. Honeyeaters and their Allies of Australia. Angus & Robertson and the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, Sydney. 427 pp. Boles, W.E. 1988. The Robins and Flycatchers of Australia. Angus & Robertson and the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, Sydney. 508 pp. Boles, W.E. and N.W. Longmore. 1985. Colours and markings of the mouths of nestling Australian songbirds. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 213-219. Boles, W.E. 1982. The juvenal plumage of the White throated Thicket flycatcher Pachycephalopsis poliosoma. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 102: 40-41. Boles, W.E. 1999. Avian prey of the Australian Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas (Microchiroptera: Megadermatidae): prey characteristics and damage from predation. Australian Zoologist 31: 82-91.
Boles, W.E. and N.W. Longmore. 1998. The avifauna of the Musselbrook area, Queensland. Pp. 25-46 in Musselbrook Reserve Scientific Study Report. Geography Monograph Series No. 4. The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Inc., Fortitude Valley. Boles, W.E. and N.W. Longmore. 1989. Altitudinal distribution of the birds of Thornton Peak, Queensland. Sunbird 19: 1-15.
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