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of the 760* species enumerated in tliis list, all the land birds except live species have been personally 

 examined by me ; the remainder are chiefly ProceUariid(e, which I have had no opportunity of 

 examining ; their names, and the localities given, are for the most part taken from Mr. Gould's 

 Handbook. 



AcAXTHiZA BUCHAXAXI, Viyorii and Horsjield, Trans. Linn. Soc. XV., p. 227, (1857.) 



I have never seen this species, nor can I tind any Acantldza answering the description given 

 under this name ; no habitat is given with the description, which is as follows : — '■^Acantli., sujn^a, 

 olivaceo-viridis, cajntis parte anteriurl alhu-lineato, subtus albida, gutture j^ectoreque fusco-lineatis ; 

 recticibus nigris, uropyyis coccines." I quite agree with Mr. Sliarpe, (Brit. Mus. Cat, Bds., Vol. 

 VII., p. 291, note) that this is the female of Ephthiauura tricolur, and not an Acantldza. 



Trichoglossus VERREUxi, Up. Rev. et Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 157. 



G. B. Gray, List. Psitt. (1859), p. 61 ; Finsch, Papag. II., p. 846. 



This bird, if really a distinct species, is certainly not Australian, unless it be a gage-bird perhaps 

 of T. concinnus, of which I have seen several, variegated with yellow on the breast, neck, and back, 



EOPSALTRIA MAGXIROSTRIS, Ramsay. 



Eijpsaltria chrysorrlious, Gould, fol. Vol, III., pi, 11, 



The true E. australis — Musicapa austraHs of Latham, is found on the South and South-eastern 

 portion of Australia, and may be distinguished by the dull rvax-yelluw of the rump. See P.Z.S., 

 1868, p. 384. Ann. and Mag. Kat. Hist, (4) IV., pp. 108, 109. 



Malurus leucopterus, M. leucoxotus, and M. callaixus, have been obtained in the Cobar 

 District, at Tyndarie, and at Louth, by 31r. J. Ramsay ; specimens received in spirits. 

 Amytis macrourus, Gould, is found in the central portion of Western Australia, 



Malurus amabilis, Gould, is the adult male, of which Malurus hypoleucos, Gould, is the young 

 male and the adult female-plumage. 



In a list of birds from the Gulf of Carpentaria (see P.L.S of N.S.W , Vol, IV., p. 379), recived 

 by Le Comte de Castelnau ; a typographical error has been made in our remarks on this species, as the 

 context and sense of the passage will show, for the word " female " young male should have been 

 written. Our specimen in change of plumage from that of the so-called M. hypoleucos to that of 

 M. amabilis could not possibly be a female. We have since obtained young birds, .said to be females, 

 in the broum plumage, characteristic of that sex of this genus ; they agree well with the plate of the 

 female given by Mr. Gould in his Supp. to Bds. of Australia, pi. 29, but may be the females of a 

 variety of 31. lamberti, the figure there representing the male is that of a young malt of J/, amabilis. 



* Several doubtful species have been omitted. 



