304 On some New Guinea Bird-names. 



Australia' now printed, I have given tlie results o£ an 

 investigation into this matter, and would note that true 

 Baza seems easily generically separable from this species. 

 If, however, the complex genus usually accepted under this 

 name be continued, then Baza cannot be maintained, as it 

 is of later date ihan Aviceda, one of the names usually 

 ranked as a synonym. This was given to an African group 

 which, moreover, resembles the above species more than 

 typical Baza. For the present species I use 



LoPHASTUR. 



Page 275. * Ibis molucca. 



I have shown that the correct generic name is Threskiornis, 

 the details being published in the 'Auk,' vol. xxx. 1913, 

 pp. 92-95. Mr. Ogilvie-Grant cannot claim to have been 

 unaware of this, as on p. 276 he refers to the place (Birds 

 Austr. iii. 1914, p. 378) where I used Threskiornis for the 

 present species. I also gave anew a sketch of the ' Auk ' 

 paper, but, as Mr. Ogilvie-Grant even misquotes mv remarks, 

 it is probable that he did not read the previous notes. 



Page 276. Notophoyx picata. 



Ogilvie-Grant has written " N, aruensis Gray is said to 

 be the immature of N. picata, but this has been denied by 

 Sharpe.'' 



In the ' Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. 1914, p. 447, I wrote : 

 " The immature spoken of by Gould as belonging to this 

 species is undoubtedly so." This result was arrived at 

 by the acquisition of Australian specimens showing the 

 plumage-changes. 



In any case, the name used by Ogilvie-Grant is wrong, as 

 Gould's name was preoccupied, as pointed out by Sharpe 

 in the Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. xxvi. p. 654, 1898, where 

 he renamed Gould's bird Notophoyx flavirostris. The New 

 Guinea bird would be the same as the Aru Island form, so 

 that the name to be used should be 



NOTOPHOVX ARUENSIS. 



