116 . 



27 Species 209 Lb now placed by Mr. North under the new genus 

 OreoBCopuB. Agr. Oaz. t N.S.W., vol. wi., part .*{. p. "247 

 (1906). 



Key I : — Bill long, straight, wide at base, equal in 



length from gape to tip to length oi head ; tail slightly 

 wedge-shaped at end, feathers broad, tin- lateral ones 

 with broad outei webs; wing concave, rounded, exceed: 

 Log l>y one-fourth the length of the tail. 

 31. Species 243 246 appear to the writer t<» be one and the same, 

 taking 244 as the most developed. 243 and 244 commonly 



l together in Victoria and produce very varying mag 

 which in their turn reproduce variably. 244 could be called the 

 Varied-backed Nfagpie. To these Mr. Milligan has added a 

 fifth species, tin- Long-billed Magpie. 

 .'•>:;. Species 262 ami 263 considered one ami tin- same. 



269 said by Ernest Hartert to be a sub-species of 271. 

 .". ». Species 270 is probably a Bynomym of -t>'.i 



272 is amalgamated with 265. Roy. Soc. Vict. (1900). 

 ::."). Species 278, female, throat white with feathers of lower portion 

 broadly edged with chestnut-red. 

 Specie.^ 283, young of 281. 

 :;!>. Specn a :>l 1. fully adult form of 310. 



317, young has throat dull wax-yellow. 

 ee 378 amalgamated with 377 (Hall). 

 ■ - 383 appears to be a sub-species of 382. 

 4s. Species 394, 395, and .'i'.iii appear to he one and tin- Bame Bp 



394 being the firsl named. 

 .">! Species 119 appears to be now an established species. 

 52. Note/orww oi Mirafra javanica in Nbvit. Zool.. xii . . ]>. 237 < 1 *. *05). 

 Aecording to Ernsl Hartert, species 441 Bhould read as a sub-spi 



oi I''., orientalis. 

 5S. S] ■ :• - 155 should lead < '. saturatus, Hodg. , with C. intermedins 

 acting as a synonym. Hand List Birds Brit. Mus. , ii., p. 158 

 (191 I 



- B 1 i C. inoin.it as as s\ uonym. 

 Chalcococcyx malayanus, an accidental species in the North. 

 To "Furcula present " add "except in Spathopterus." 

 §peci< - 518 La a variety of 517, both characters appearing at times in 



tic • n 



68. " Swifl Lorikeet" Bhould read "Swift Parrakeet," and, the genue 

 being preoccupied, Euphema (Wagler) might be substituted. 

 537 is said by Ernst Hartert to be a sub-species of 536. 

 557 ,ii,i 559 are one and the same, the latter being the adult 

 form. The description oi 557 appears to be of the yo 



In Bpeciet 558 "no arej crescent" Bhould read "no 

 w hi' i " while the distribution is extended to art 



74. M. duperreyi tumulus differs from M. duperreyi by it- darker and 



more rufous uppei side and larger e ' srt). 



76. Sp< i ies "'71 and 575 one and the same. 



77 Species 584 is said by K. B. Sharpe (Hand List >rit. Mus.. 



j). 10-J) to be a Tongatabu species and extinct, P. plumbea, 

 i\ , being our bird. 



78 l ■ •" low 589 is th< G. frontata, Wall., new to Australia. 



Sand List Birds Brit. Mus. No specimen is recorded 

 Horn this country. It differs from G. tenebroea, Gld., in having 

 the under surface dark slat} grey instead of Light grey, and by 

 having the light colour oi the toes above red like th< 

 Instead ol yellow . Hah. : ■_•. 

 v «' - differentiated by Hartert from the New Zealand 



1 1 iinicolor fuliginosua, Gld. 



