Vol. XXI 

 1922 



] CAMPI^ELL, Birds of Grootc Hylandt. 189 



"H. L. White Collection." Hence the few following critical 

 remarks. 



Having dealt with the "I'.irds from the Gouldian-Gilhert Type- 

 Locality" (Arnliem Land) (see Bmii, xviii., part 3), I was par- 

 ticularly anxious to see birds from the adjacent large island — 

 Groote Eylandt. 



In connection with tyi^e localities of several of the "(iouldian- 

 Gilbert" birds, I 'fell partly into a trap. In turning up Gould's 

 original localities in the P.Z.S. (London), I found records, 

 "North-West Australia," and did not recollect that Gould, in his 

 "Handbook," had corrected some of them, or the inference to 

 "Port Essington" (Arnhem Land) until Mr. Gregory Mathews 

 drew attention to the matter as reflecting on his researches. I can- 

 not say more than "I am sorry," and thank him for the correc- 

 tion. No one values more than I the amount of research work 

 Mr. Mathews has done in discovering and correcting references. 

 The species referred to are five, namely : — Podargus phalccnoides, 

 Piezorhynchus nitidns, Neositta Iciicoptera, Pardalotus nropygi- 

 alis, and Myconiela erythrocephola* 



However, Mr. Mathews has not satisfactorily shown that 

 "North-West Australia" is not the type-locality for six of 

 Gould's species, namely — Turnix castanota, Rhipidiira isura, 

 Myiagra concinua, Mahtrus cruenatus, Cractkiis argenteiis, and 

 Tropidorhynchns argcntlceps. In the last-mentioned, we have 

 the interesting record by Gould (see "Handbook," i., page 548) : 

 "For the first knowledge of this species of Tropidorhynchns, 

 science is indebted to the late Mr Bynoe, surgeon of Her 

 Majesty's surveying ship, 'Beagle,' who, on my visiting Sydney, 

 placed his specimens at my disposal ; after my return to Eng- 

 land, other examples were sent to me by Sir George Grey. 



"Bynoe's specimens were obtained during the survey of the 

 North-West coast, a portion of Australia the natural produc- 

 tions of which are but little known, and Sir George Grey's dur- 

 ing his expedition into the interior, from the same coast." 



That does not appear like "Port Essington, Northern Terri- 

 tory !" Then regarding Cracticus argenteus, reference to the 

 "Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds," viii,, pp. 99-100, indicate that the type 

 came from North-West Australia. Page 100 bears the follow- 

 ing record : — 



"(a) Juv. sk. N.W. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. (Type of 

 species.") 



Perhaps it matters little ornithologically, because refeience to 

 Mr. Gerald Hill's fine photographs in The Emu, x., pis. 29 to 34, 

 and to his observations of the country in both the further North- 

 West and Arnhem Land — the physical features are similar, and 

 doubtless their respective avi- fauna varies little. 



* Students and others, if sufficiently interested, will accordingly please 

 correct their copies of the above mentioned article.— A.J. C. 



