On some Neio Guinea Bird-names. 295 



XIII — On some New Guinea Bird-names. 

 By Gregory M. Mathews, M.B.O.U. 



An account of tlie Birds collected by the British Ornitho- 

 logists' Union Expedition to New Guinea, written by Mr. 

 Ogilvie-Grant, has recently been published in the Jubilee 

 Supplement No. 2 of this Journal. As a whole, this is 

 a good and full account, and will be extremely useful to 

 later workers when dealing with New Guinea birds. 

 Many of the genera and species there dealt with occur in 

 Australia, and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant has often noted my con- 

 clusions regarding Australian forms, generally to disagree 

 with them. I do not propose to trouble the readers of 

 ' The Ibis ' with controversial opinions, but I feel it neces- 

 sary to record how frequently Mr. Ogilvie-Grant has 

 ignored my published notes dealing with facts. It is 

 obvious that Mr. Ogilvie-Grant^s paper will be often 

 utilized as a basis for future work, so it is important to 

 point out what rectifications are required at the earliest 

 opportunity. The succeeding notes only deal with such 

 points as have occurred to me while studying my own 

 Australian Avifauna. It is possible that other nomen- 

 clatural errors may be found, but I have only concerned 

 myself with those that I myself have come across. 



I will take the species in the order given in the paper. 



Page 2. Gymnocorax senex. 



Although Mr. Ogilvie-Grant has generally followed 

 Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert, accepting all their mis- 

 takes, in this case they wrote (Nov. Zool. vol. xx. 1913, 

 p. 520) Gymnocorvus senex. 



This paper was issued on October 21, while on October 23, 

 the ' Austral Avian Record,' vol. ii. nos. 2 & 3, appeared. 

 Pages 49-54 contained a paper by myself, entitled "Dates 

 of Publication of the Plates of the ^ Ornithology ... of the 

 Coquille.' " The information in this paper has not been 



