648 ]\Icssvs. II. C. Robinson and AV. S. Laverock on 



102. Chalcopiiaps chrysociilora (Wagl.) ; Salvad. t. n. 

 p. 511. 



Three specimens from Cooktown and many from Cairns. 



Of Cooktown s})ecimens Mr. Olive says that the species is 

 common there only during the winter months, when it may 

 be found feeding on the ground in parties of one, two, or 

 three, but never more. 



Iris brown ; feet and bill red. 



The Northern race of this widespread species has been 

 separated as Ch. longirostris Gould ; the differences in the 

 size of the bill, however, are minute and apparently not 

 very constant, when large series are available for comparison. 

 The ashy bars on the back and rump seem somewhat more 

 defined in birds from North Australia, as is also the case in 

 specimens from Timor and the New Hebrides. 



103. "^Syncecus australis (Lath.) ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 247 (1893). 



Two pairs of adult birds from Cooktown belong to the 

 smaller and greyer form, S. cervinus Gould. 



" Iris brown ; feet and legs yellow ; bill horn-colour " 

 [Olive). 



104. fExCALFACTORIA CHINENSIS LINEATA (Scop.) J Ogilvic 



Grant, t. c. p. 253. 



A single female from Bellenden Ker. 



"Scarce; generally in pairs in thick grass, from which 

 they are only flushed with great difficulty. Iris reddish 

 brown; feet yellow ; bill black ^' [Olive). 



105. Catheturus lathami (J. E. Gray) ; Ogilvie Grant, 

 t. c. p. 468 ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1899, pp. 14, 16. 



A fine series of this species in breeding and non-breeding 

 plumage from Cooktown and Cairns. 



It is very abundant at Cooktown and, though scarce on 

 Mount Sapphiri, is evidently extremely common on the lower 

 spurs of Mount Bellenden Ker. 



Four males from Cooktown, shot in June and the latter 

 part of September, show hardly any trace of the wattle at 

 the back of the neck, which in one specimen from Mount 

 Sapphiri, and in three others from Mount Bellenden Ker, shot 



