( 17 ) 



Latham's description is inaccurate only in tlie colonr of the feet, which are 

 given as " flavi," and which the fignre shows dark. 



Page 59 : Genus CCXXIII. Menum Latham, Snp/d. Index Orii. p. Ixi (1801). 

 replaces j\[enura Davies (1S02). 

 „ „ Species 418. M. n. hollandiae Latham, Sappl. Judex Orn. p. Ixi (1801). 

 replaces M. superba Davies (1802). 



In the Tranit. Linn. Soc. Land. vol. vi. p. 207 Davies described Menunt 

 superba. The date of this introduction has been usually given as 1800, and it has 

 been preferred to 'Menura n. hollandiae Latham, Siippl. Index Orn. p. Ixi, 1801. 

 But though Davies's note was read in 1800, an additional note (p. 210) is dated 

 June 10, 1801, and, as a matter of fact, it was not published until 1802, as Mr. 

 Sherborn has already pointed out {Index Animalium, p. 607, 1902). Consequently 

 Latham's names have absolute priority, and must be accepted. 



Page 08 : Species o04. Coracina melanops Lath, must be resumed for this species. 



Sharpe, in tlie Hist. Coll. B. M. ii. p. 113, when explaining the Watling 

 drawing's, pointed out that Lanius robustus seemed to be tlie first name given to 

 the bird commonly known as Graucaliis melanops Lath., and upon this authority, 

 in my Handlist, I included species No. 504, Coracina robusta Lath. = C. melanops 

 Lath. 



Re-examination of the Watling drawings having indicated errors of identifica- 

 tion on the part of Sharpe with regard to some species, which are noted in this 

 paper, I carefully went into the matter again. With the birds in front of me I find 

 that robustus is not applicable, whereas No. 58, the type of Corvus melanops, is a 

 splendid representation. We are therefore compelled to resume melanops, as it 

 undoubtedly should never have l)een changed. The type fignre of robustus shows 

 that Latham's description {Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 74) is correct — " the head and the 

 whole of the neck as far as the breast are black . . . the tail in colonr like the body, 

 crossed near the end with a broad bar of black, but the very end of it is nearly 

 white." These characters at once divorce the name robustus from connection with 

 melanops. 



Page 70 : Species 520. Psopl/odes olimceus Latham, Suppl. Ind. Orn. p. xxvi (1801) 



replaces P. crepitans Latham, Suppl. Ind. C>rn. p. Ii, 1801. 



This alteration will minimise the risk of such an erroneous localisation as that 



"in the Zool. Record, 1009, Aves, p. 103, when, through the similarity of both the 



generic and specific names to Psophia crepitans Linne, this species is referred to 



the Ordek Gruiformes 1 



Page 74 : Species 557. Oriyma solitaria Lewin, Birds of Xew Holland, PI. XVI 

 (1808) 

 replaces 0. rubricata uec Latham. 



This change is necessary throngh the examination of the Watling drawings, 

 when it is discovered that Sylvia rubricata Latham referred to the bird previously 

 known as Cacomantis Jiabelliformis. 



Page 75: Species 564. In the Xov. Zool. vol. xvii. p. 501 (1910) I proposed 

 the new name Acanthiza archibaldi. 



This unfortunately appeared without any indication of its novelty ; hence this 

 note is necessary in order to prevent confusion. 



