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Reviews 



[The Austral Avian Record, vol. iv. , part 6, August 1st, 1921]. 



An interesting number of this journal of importance e.^peci- 

 ally to Australian ornithologists contains: (1) The conclusion 

 of the article on Sherborn and the Systematist; (2) Additions 

 and Corrections to the List of the Birds of Australia, 1913, and 

 Check-list Pt. 1, 1920; (3) Notes of Interest, and (4) a new 

 generic or subgeneric name — Amorophelia — to be used with 

 Coluiuha tiirtiir as type. 



The Additions and Corrections are mainly to synonymy and 

 type designation and some correct dates of publication. Few 

 changes of generic or s])ecific names are made necessary by these. 

 Hudyfes cristatiis replaces B. serresianus, Geobasileiis chrysorr- 

 hoits alexanderi replaces Acanthiza pallida Milligan, 1903, pre- 

 occupied by Acanthiza pallida "Temm." Finsch, 1898; Mirafra 

 javanica soderbergi replaces M. j. nigrcscens Mathews, 1912, 

 preoccupied by Mirafra nigrescens, Reichenow, 1900 — a well- 

 merited recognition of the work of Dr. Soderberg in North- 

 West Australia. Dr. Soderberg's report was reviewed in a pre- 

 vious issue. 



In the "Notes of Interest," Messrs. Mathews and Iredale first 

 give details of "Lichtenstein's Sale Catalogues." Many of the 

 names used are nomina nuda, but "unfortunately" one portion 

 "includes Illiger's names, and cites references validating them." 

 Fortunately for us, no Australian bird name is included. 



"Berthold's Edition of Letreille," 1827 likewise does not cause 

 changes. It adds only to the synonymy of one Australian 

 cockatoo; Eurhynchus, a synonym to Prohoscigcr (1820), now 

 proposed for Microglossus (1822). 



An article by Cassin entitled "Encyclopedia Londinensis," 

 published in Philadelphia, in 1867, provides a synonym for the 

 Emu-Wren (Stipiturits tnalachurus) . The authors show in a 

 short article the vicissitudes of "Turdus varius" regarded as 

 valid, preoccupied, valid again, and finally preoccupied as dif- 

 ferent discoveries in ornithological literature have been made, 

 ^lathews and Iredale now include the name in the synonymy of 

 the Noisy Miner, Myzantha garrida of the Check-list and M. 

 mclanocephala of Mathews and Iredale's Name-list, 1920. 



"Miller's Illustrations," a rare work concerns an Australian 

 penguin, Eudytes chrysocome. Forster stated the specimen was 

 killed in Tasmania, and his son made a drawing. Forster saw 

 another specimen from Falkland Islands, and commissioned 

 Miller to paint this example. When describing "the new species. 

 Forster gave as localities Van Diemen's Land and the Falkland 

 Islands, and in his descrij)tion included Bougainville's account 

 of Falkland Islands specimens." Mathews and Iredale find that 

 the pencil drawing of the Tasmanian bird is from a species 



