Vol. XVIII 



1919 



] Campbell, Birds from Gouldian-Gilhevt Type-locality. lyg 



specific naiiic radjah. Hartert long afterwards pointed out {Nov. 

 Zool., xii., p. 205) that the Austrahan bird was sub-specifically 

 distinct. 



Ninox rufa, Gould. Rufous Owl. 



Rhabdoglanx rufa. 



One ?, 2 <^ juvenile. As expected, this Rufous Owl is lighter- 

 coloured and slightly larger than the same species frequenting 

 the heavily-timbered tracts of North Queensland. Mathews 

 separates the latter under the name queenslandica, and gives good 

 figures of both varieties in his " Birds of Australia," iii., pis. 265, 

 266. One of the juvenile specimens from the Territory is very 

 light-coloured, with long white down hanging from the back of the 

 neck and from the tibia. Gilbert obtained but one specimen, 

 which became the type. 



Calyptorhynchus macrorhynchus, Gould. Great-billed Cockatoo. 



Calyptorhynchits hanksii viacrorhynchus. 



One (S. Wing, 460 mm. All Gould's examples were collected at 

 Port Essington. Whether this fine species be a sub-species or 

 not of banksi, it is similar in appearance to North-Western birds 

 (Napier Broome Bay district). Mathews gives the average wing 

 measurements of North- West and Territory birds as 430 mm., 

 and figures a pair (vol. vi., pi. 282). 



A ^ specimen from North Queensland (? northi, Mathews) has 

 a wing 440 mm. 



Ptistes (erythropterus) coccineopterus, Gould. Crimson-winged 



Parrot. 

 Aprosmictiis e. coccineopterus. 



Three SS (one not in full plumage and one immature). As Gould 

 pointed out, this northern race is smaller, but has a larger bill, 

 and the red patch on the wings wears a crimson hue (scarlet-red), 

 and is not so extensive as in erythroptents. The northern bird 

 has not been figured. 



' Podargus phalsenoides, Gould. Freckled Frogmouth. 

 Podargus sfrigoides phalcsnoides. 



Two cJc?, I ?• Average wing, 220 mm. The ? is inclined to be 

 redder than the (^^, and is also redder on the throat, which appears 

 to be characteristic of the ?. Mathews's nmngi, for the North- 

 West, is not a convincing sub-species ; moreover, Gould's type-bird 

 came from " North- West Coast of Australia" {vide P.Z.S., 1839, 

 p. 142). 



There is in the National Collection, Melbourne, a ? almost 

 entirely rufous, taken at Alligator River (N.T.), 11/1/13. 



^gotheles novae-hollandise, Latham. Owlet Nightjar. 

 Mgotheles cristata leucogaster. 



One $. Similar to other Northern and North-Western skins 

 in the " H. L. White Collection," and is not so dark on the under 

 surface (abdomen) as southern birds from New South Wales or 



