191 7-] Tardus miuutus jFl»ri7er. 427 



of tlie comparison I have just made clear, it is apparently 

 that, placing their entire confidence in Gray's works, they 

 have, in the present case, blindly copied them, without going 

 back to the sources. 



I must add that it is the same P. flavolateralis which is 



mentioned as Muscylva (?) by Jouan in his Catalogue 



of New Caledonian Birds'^. 



No alteration fortunately has to be made in the nomen- 

 clature now in use. The name proposed by Forster belongs 

 only to the bird found in New Zealand, of which we have 

 first spoken ; it gives way, besides, before Pants macro- 

 cephalus Gmeliu, which has a considerable priority. On 

 the other hand, in Gray's work, flavolateralis, which is 

 previous to for steri,YCi.\\^t be preferred; f or steri cowXii just 

 be used as a subspecific designation in case a special form 

 should be found in the locality where Cook's Expedition 

 noticed the bird. 



In conclusion, without going any further than the 

 publication of the British Museum Catalogue, vol. iv., 

 the synonymy of Pseudoyerygone jiavolater alls jiavolater alls -\ 

 must be established as follows : — 



Turdus minutiis J. R. Forster, Descr. Anim. 18 i4, p. 84 



(lantum) {Insula Botany). 

 Acanthiza flavo late rails G. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1859, p. 161 {Island of Nu). 

 Petroica ? G. K. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1859, p. 161. 

 Petroica forsteri G. R. Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pacific 



Oc. 1859, p. 15. 

 Acanthiza flavolateralis G. R. Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. 



Pacific Oc. 1859, p. 15. 

 Petroica ? J. Verreaux & O. Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. 



Zool. (2) xii. 1860, p. 391. 



« H. Jouan, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, ix. 18G3, p. 219, 

 no. 18. 



t A Lifu form lias been distinguisUecl by F. Sarasin under the name 

 of P. Jlavilateralis lifuaisis (Yog. Xeu-Caled. und Loyalty -Ins. p. 21, 

 1913). 



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