NOTES AND EEFEEENCES. 



68. DiCELO cERViNA, 69 D. occiDENTALis, 70D. LEACHii, andSalvadori's 

 D. INTERMEDIA from New Guinea, should be considered merely local 

 varieties of one and the same species, the colour, and the form of the 

 bill will be found to be of very little importance when a large series 

 of these birds are carefully examined. 



74. Halcyon macleayi, there are no differences worthy of record, between 

 the Cape York and New Guinea examples of this species, it is found 

 as far South as the Clarence Eiver, and at Derby in N.W. Australia. 



82. Aetamus leucogaster=A. leucoptgialis of Gould, I gather from 

 Mr. Sharpe's notes on the genus, that this species is identical with 

 A. LEUcopYGiALis of Gould, (Eowlcy's Orn. Misc. Vol. III., p. 184.) 



84. Artamds VENUSTtJS, Sharpe ; Rowley's Orthin. Miscell., Vol. iii., p. 



198-99; = A. cinereus, of Vieillot. 



85. Artamus albiventris, Gould, a good species in which the under tail 

 coverts are white both in the young and in the adults. Localities, 

 Herbert Eiver, Eockingham Bay, and Gulf District. 



84 and SO. Artamus cinereus, of Vieillot^A. melanops, Gould. After 

 a careful examination of over 50 specimens from all parts of Australia, 

 I can find no valid reason for separating these birds. Specimens 

 from the Interior are more ashy on the head and neck and have the 

 faded tint, peculiar to so many birds from that hot district ; the 

 under tail coverts are all black in the adults, tipped with white in 

 the inmature birds. Specimens have been examined from the following 

 localities : South Australia, Port Augusta, Interior, Lachlan Eiver, 

 South and North-West Australia, Derby, Port Darwin and 100 miles 

 inland from thence. The type of A. cinereus of Vieillot, if in 

 existence, should be carefully examined with specimens from South 

 Australia, whence Mr. Gould obtained his type of A. melanops. I 

 believe them to be one and the same species. 



91. Pardalotus ornatus, Teynm. = P. striatus, Vig. 4" Sorsf., see 

 Sharpe's Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 55. 



