New Guinea Bird-names. 299 



Vieillot described a Platyrhynchos ruficollis, and this lias 

 been recognized by Berlepsch and Hellmayr. Swainson 

 described Vieillot's type as Myiagra latirostris in 1838, 

 and two years later Gould described the Australian bird 

 under the same name. This latter usage is the one 

 continued by Ogilvie-Grant, but it is obviously untenable. 



The name to be used for the New Guinea bird, then, is 



Myiagra ruficollis mimik^. 



Page 177. Pitta atricapilla. 



Ogilvie-Grant observed: "Tbere can be no doubt that 

 Pitta atricapilla Quoy & Gaimard is the oldest name for 

 this bird." 



The specific name had, however, been previously used 

 for a member of the same genus, and consequently Quoy 

 and Gaimard's usage is invalid, and therefore reversion 

 must be made to 



Pitta nov^guine^. 



Page 224. Lorius. 



Since Mr. Ogilvie-Grant's paper was prepared, an inquiry 

 into the names proposed in Boddaert^s ' Table des Planches 

 Enlum.,' by Iredale and myself, has been published in the 

 'Austral Avian Record/ vol. iii. pp. 31-51, Nov. 19, 1915. 

 I do not regard this name as a mistake by Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, but I am drawing attention to the facts here as 

 so many of my nomenclatural notes have been overlooked 

 by him. 



We there recorded that Lorius (mis-spelt Larius) was 

 introduced by Boddaert in connection with Psittacus cecla- 

 nensis, p. 42, and, as this name is a synonym of Psittacus 

 roratus Miiller, 1776, given to the same plate, Lorius is 

 equal to Eclectus. 



For the genus Ogilvie-Grant is dealing with, Wagler's 

 well-known 



DoMICELLA 



is available. 



