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men being marked " Type. Gould's Birds of Australia,'' no 

 matter whether the species was Gould' s or not ! 



Gould's original descriptions were for the most part published in 

 the Proceediwjs of the Zoological Society, and ai*e generally very 

 meagre, so that it is impossible to tell how many of the numerous 

 " type specimens " of each species he had at the time he prepared 

 the diagnoses. 



By careful study and comparison with the original descriptions 

 it is possible to select the specimen which agrees in plumage, meas- 

 urements and locality with the description in nearly every case, 

 and such ones I have designated as the types. 



Of the 391 names proposed by Gould for Australian birds (in- 

 cluding those published in his Handbook) the types of 321 are in 

 the Academy collection. Of the rest, fifty-six are in the British 

 Museum, or other collections stated by Gould, while of fourteen 

 the actual type seems to have been lost, though paratypes or cotypes 

 are still preserved in the Academy, 



A complete manuscript catalogue of the Gould Australian speci- 

 mens has been prepared, and may be published at some future time. 



Below are given such of his types from localities other than 

 Australia as are preserved in the Academy collection: 



Nestor productus (Gould). 

 Plyctolophus productus Gould, P. Z. S., 1836, p. 19. 

 22,082. New Zealand. Gould coll. Type. 



Ramphastos brevicarinatus Gould. 



Raiiiphastos brecicari/iatus Gould. Mon. Kampli., ii Ed., pi. iii (1854). 

 20,375. Mexico. Rivoli coll. Type. 



Ramphastos citreolaemus Gould. 

 Ramphastos citreolmmus Gould. P. Z. S., 1843, p. 147. 

 20,391. Bogota. Rivoli coll. Type. 



Todirhamphus recurvirostris Lafr. 



Halcyon platyrostris Gould, P. Z. S., 1842, p. 72. 

 21,449. Navigator Islands. J.Gould. Type. 



Chamseza nobilis Gould. 



Chamceza nobilis Go\i\i\.. Ann. and Mag. Zool., xv, 2d Series, 1855, p. 

 344. 



8,517. Peru. "No. 2 Chamneza nobilis, sp. nov., Gould. Type." 



The above data are in Gould's hand. The British Museum 

 Catalogue contains another specimen with the same data, which iis 

 recorded as the type. 



