28 From Magazines^ &c. f'^nd "lul • 



Red-mantled Parrakeet that was caught with two others on the 

 northern rivers. The two others had died, but this one he 

 hoped to send home to me. It has recently arrived, and is now 

 in my aviary — an undoubted specimen of Salvadori's Platycercus 

 erythropeplusT As Mr. Seth-Smith has already explained {Emu, 

 vol. iii., p. 197), this bird is a hybrid between the Pennant Parra- 

 keet {P. elegans) and the Rosclla {P. cxiinius). It is interesting 

 to have found examples in the wilds, because Count Salvadori's 

 type was a living specimen in the Zoological Gardens, London. 



Name Changes. — In TJie Ibis for January, Mr. A. J. North 

 contributes rem.arks on the names of some Australian birds. 

 In strict obedience to the law of priority, the Fan-tailed Cuckoo 

 will, the writer says, henceforth have to be known as Cacomantis 

 rufulus, and the Brush Cuckoo as Cucuhis flabelliforinis. The 

 Pallid Cuckoo will, on the same grounds, become Qiculus 

 inornat?ts,the White-naped (Lunulated) Honey-eater be renamed 

 MelitJircptiis atricapilljis, and the Tasmanian species now known 

 as M. melanoceplialus will become M . affinis. The Wattle-Bird 

 genus {Acanthochcera) becomes Anthochcura, and the yellow 

 Tasmanian Wattle-Bird ought to be specifically renamed A. 

 paradoxa. One is inclined to think that the upholders of the 

 law of priority have hitherto rather neglected this last specific 

 name in their choice of substitutes. 



Birds of the Philippine Islands. — From the " Hand- 

 List " of Messrs. M'Gregor and Worcester (Manila, 1906) the 

 connection between the avifauna of the Philippines and that 

 of Australia is easily discernible. Among familiar species 

 common to both areas may be noted Excalfactoria australis, 

 Hypotcvnidia pJiilippinensis, Poliolimnas cinereus, Hydrochelidon 

 hybrida and H. Icucoptera, Sterna ancEStheta, S. ftdiginosa, 

 S. sinensis, and ^. vielanaucJien, A nous stolidus, Hiinantopus 

 leucocephalus, Plegadis fa/cinellus, Dendrocycna arcuata, Falco 

 melanogenys, Pandion leucocepJialus, Caprimulgus macrurus, 

 Artanius leucogaster, and, of course, a number of the wide- 

 ranging Limicolae. The absence of the Snipe {Ga/linago 

 australis) from the list is noteworthy, as is also the presence 

 side by side of the Peregrine Falcon {^F. peregrinus) with the 

 Black-cheeked species i^F. melanogenys). 



Priority in Nomenclature. — Some remarks of the presi- 

 dent of the Ornithological Society of Bavaria ( Verh. der O. G. in 

 Bayern, 1904, p. 13) are interesting in this connection. " He 



