NOTES AND REFEEENCES. 



156. Ehipidura diemenensis, Sharpe, resembles E. albtscapa, from 

 Tasmania, Brit. Mns. Cat. Bds. IV., p. 311 ; ^- E. saturata, Sharpe 



the specific term saturata being preoccupied, E. sharpei, Ramsay, 



was proposed for it, but diemenensis takes priority. 



160. E. SETOSA, Quoy et Gaim., =- E. isura, Gould,, = E. superciliosa, 

 Ramsay. 



164. Seisura nana, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) Vol. VI., p. 224. 



167. M. rubectjla of Latham = M. plumbea, Vig. cf Horsf. 



168. M. NiTiDA, Gould, nee. M. rubecula. Lath. 



171. I have seen from the S. E. Coast of New Guinea one mutilated 

 specimen in spirits, it appears to he identical with the female of 

 MACH^RiRHYNCHtrs FLAVivENTER, Oould, from Queensland. 



175. MoNARCHA melanopsis, VieilL, N-dict. d'hist Nat. xxi., p. 450. 

 = MoNARCHA carinata, Vig. Sc Horsf., = Drymophila carinata, 

 of Temm., PI. Col. iii., pi. 418, fig. 3. 



176. PiEZORHYNCHUs GOULDii, Gray,a.nd P. albiventris, Gould. In my 

 previous notes on these species (P.L.S. of N. S. Wales, 2 Ser. Vol. I., 

 p. 1144.) I alluded to the opinion held by Mi. Sharpe that P. gotjldii 

 and P. albiventris were the same, I am glad to find that Mr. Sharpe 

 has considerably modified this view in the " Voyage of the Alert, pp. 

 14, 15," where, however, I think he has erred on the other side, in 

 separating the specimens found at Port Molle, as a distinct species 

 imder the name of Piezorhtnchus medius, on account, as far as I 

 can ascertain, of their black upper tail-coverts. Specimens before 

 me from near Port Denison agree in every respect with P. medius, 

 but among them are also others in which the upper tail-coverts vary 

 from bluish grey to black, this I find depends on the age and sex of 

 the individual. Those from N. S. Wales are palest in the orange 

 rufous tint of the sides of the throat, and chest, while the birds from 

 the Cardwell and Cairns districts further north, are deepest in tint ; 

 the extent of white on the outer three tail feathers also varies, and 

 in one specimen from Port Denison, a fourth feather is tipped with 

 white. I regret I did not see Mr. Sharpe's correction sooner, but in 

 any case, after examining a very large series from the Clarence Eiver 

 in N. S. Wales to Cape York in North Australia, I can only find two 

 distinct species P. gotjldii. Gray and P. albiventris, Gould ; P. 

 MEDiTJS therefore, becomes only a synonym of P. gotjldii of Gray. 



180. Gertgone albigtjlaris, Gould. I cannot find any material difference 

 between the Western and Eastern specimens of this species. 



181. Gerygone cinerascens, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. IV., p. 212; 

 N. W. A. This maybe the adult of the young mentioned — P.L.S. of 

 N.S.W., Vol. I., 2nd Ser., p. 1098 (1886). 



