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But while not a few new species have been brought to 

 light, we find only one strictly new genus — that of Scenopceus, 

 belonging to the family of Boiver-huilders, among which may also 

 be included the " Satin bird" Ftilonorhynchus ; Ailurcedus, Chla- 

 mydodera and the " Regent bird" Sericulus melinus. 



Our knowledge of the range of many species, previously 

 known, only from the locality in which they were first discovered, 

 has been of late years, greatly augmented, by collections made 

 by Messrs. Masters, Spalding, Thorpe, Rainbird, Pettard, and 

 Broadbent ; during my own excursions in North East Australia, 

 I was enabled to identify, nearly three hundred species from the 

 vicinity of Rockingham Bay alone, which, from the diversified 

 nature of its Flora, and style of country in general, is perhaps the 

 richest district in Australia ; it is the only part of Northern 

 Queensland, the scrubs of which at all approach, to those rich 

 brushes or scrubs of the Richmond River. 



Small collections have been recently made at the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria, and surrounding districts, by Messrs. Broadbent, 

 Gulliver, and Inspector Armit ; but little or nothing has been 

 added to our knowledge of the avifauna of the interior or North 

 West Coast. One of Mr. Macleay's collectors, Edward Spalding, 

 has done good work at Port Darwin, but as yet I am only aware 

 of one new species having been obtained there. From Western 

 Australia, since the publication of Mr. Gould's Hand-book, 

 not a single new species peculiar to that region, has been obtained. 



As yet 1 have not seen the following, but judging from 

 the descriptions alone, given in a newspaper report, of a paper 

 read before the Philosophical Society of Queensland, I regret to 

 say, they appear to me to have been all previously described. 

 Acanthiza flavigaster, (Diggles) — Gerygone albogularis, (Gould). 

 Cuculus brisbanensis, (Diggles) = young of Cuculus optatus, 

 (Gould), (C. canoroides, Mull), Lamprococcyx modesta, 

 (Biggies) = young of L. basalis. Milvus striatus, (Diggles) = 

 Henicopernis longicauda, the Falco longicauda of Garnot.* 



* Mr. Diggles has kindly forwarded me the description and a drawing 

 of his bird, which leaves no doubt in my mind as to its identity. 



