454 RESIDUE OF EXTINCT BIRDS OF QUEENSLAND AS YET DETECTED, 



Numerous bones, indeed, remain unnoticed, but they are heads of 

 fibulas, phalanges of toes, fragments of ribs, water worn relics of 

 sterna, all barren of instruction. An opportunity, therefore, 

 fairly offers of summing up the knowledge we seem to have 

 acquired from the collection in this its initial stage ; and if the 

 great slowness with which bird fossils are brought together be 

 considered we shall have less difficulty in accepting the offer ; 

 judging from past experience, it is not probable that a supplement 

 to the following list will be necessary for some years, however 

 soon a revision of its contents may be so judged by a succeeding 

 observer. 



List of Birds 

 (From the so-called Post-Pliocene Drifts of Queensland). 



N.B. — For all names without authority stated the writer is 

 responsible ; extinct genera in italics. 



CARINAS. 



FALCONIDiE. 



Taphaetits brachialis, syn. Uroaetus brachialis. 

 Necrastur alacer. 



COLUMBJE. 



Lithophaps ulnaris. 

 Progura gallinacea. 



Megapodid^e. 



Chosomis prseteritus 



Grall^e. 



Tribonyx effluxus, syn. Fulica prior (part). 



Porphyrio (?) reperta. 



Porphyrio (?) mackintoshi. 



Fulica prior. 



Gallinula strenuipes. 



Gallinula peralata. 



Lobivanellus sp. 



