28 REMAHKS ON FOREGOING LIST OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



to identify, nearly three hundred species from the vicinity of Rockingliain Bay alone, which, from 

 the diversified nature of its flora, and style of country in general, is perhaps the richest district in 

 Australia ; it is the only part of Northern Queensland, the scrubs of which at all approach, to those 

 I'icli Ijrushes or scrubs of tlie Clarence and Richmond Rivers. 



Small collections have been recently made at the Gulf of Carpentaria, and surrounding districts, 

 by Messrs. Broadbent, Gulliver, and Inspector Armit ; and much has been added to our knowledge 

 of the avifauna of the North-west Coast by the late Mr. Boyer-Bower, and Messrs. Cairns and 

 Froggatt. One of Mr. Macleay's collector, Edward Spalding, has done good word at Port Darwin, 

 but as yet I am only aware of one neiv species having been obtained there. From South-western 

 Australia, since the publication of Mr. Gould's Hand-book, not a single new species peculiar to that 

 region, has been obtained. 



As yet I have not seen the following, but judging from the description alone, given in a newspaper 

 report, of a paper read before the Philosophical Society of Queensland, J regret to say, they appear 

 to me to have been all previously described. Acanthizajiaviyaster, J)\g^\es, = Gerygone albogularis, 

 Gould. Cnculus brisbaneusis, Diggles = young of Cnculus optntus, Gould, (C. canoroides, Mull.) 

 Lamproccyx modesfa, Diggles = young of L. basalis. Milnis striatum, Diggles = Henicopernis, the 

 Faico Jotiyiccnida Ot Garnot.* 



Uulabeorn/is yriseoventris, Diggles. Cinnyris aspasvv, Ceyx solitaruis, with Henicopernis 

 hngicauda, are said to have been obtained near Cape York, but are of donbtful origin. Mr. 

 Cockerell's large collection was made chiefly at the Aru Islands, wjiere these species were probaljly 

 collected. Some more authentic proof of their being obtained on the Australian Continent must 

 be forthcoming before they are admitted into our list of birds ; nevertheless it is not improbable 

 that Henicopernis hngicauda, Ceyx solitarius, and Cinnyris asjiasia- may yet be found at 

 Cape Yoi'k, as we have authentic specimens from Port ^Moresby, on the South Coast of 

 New Guinea. 



For corrections in the nomenclature I am indebted to valuable papers by tlie following gentlemen: — 

 Messrs. R. B. Sharpe, H. Seebohin, J. E. Harting, Howard Saunders, and to the following works: — 

 The British Museum Catalogues of Birds, Dr. Finsch's " Die rap<igeien" The " Ibis," Proceedings 

 and Transactions of Zool Soc, London, and the Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, and 

 Salvadori's Prodromus, Orn. Pap. et Mollucc. 



With i-espect to localities and distriljutionof the species, notwithstanding Mr. Gould's great work, 

 they have been compiled chiefly from my own notes and those of 31 r. George Masters, Curator of 

 the Macleayan Museum, who has collected largely in nearly all parts of Australia. Mr. K. H. 

 Bennett, Mr. F. G. Waterhouse, and Mr. George Barnard have also kindly fumiished me with data 

 on Central Australian Birds, and several rare species for examination. I may mention that out 



* The late Mr. Diggles kindly forwarded me the description and a drawing of his bird, which leaves no 



doubt iu my mind as to its identity 



