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27. Species 209 is now placed by Mr. North under the new genus 

 Oreoscopus. Agr. Gaz., N.S.W., vol. xvi., part 3, p. 247 

 (1905). 



Key to Genus : Bill long, straight, wide at base, equal in 

 length from gape to tip to length of head ; tail slightly 

 wedge-shaped at end, feathers broad, the lateral ones 

 with broad outer webs ; wing concave, rounded, exceed- 

 ing by one-fourth the length of the tail. 



31. Species 243-246 appear to the writer to be one and the same, 

 taking 244 as the most developed. 243 and 244 commonly 

 breed together in Victoria and produce very varying magpies, 

 which in their turn reproduce variably. 244 could be called the 

 Varied-backed Magpie. To these Mr. Milligan has added a 

 fifth species, the Long-billed Magpie. 



33. Species 262 and 263 considered one and the same. 



Species 269 said by Ernest Hartert to be a sub-species of 271. 



34. Species 270 is probably a synomym of 269. 



Species 272 is amalgamated with 265. Roy. Soc. Viet. (1900). 



35. Species 278, female, throat white with feathers of lower portion 



broadly edged with chestnut-red. 

 Species 283, young of 281. 

 39. Species 311, fully adult form of 310. 



Species 317, young has throat dull wax-yellow. 

 46. Species 378 amalgamated with 377 (Hall). 



Species 383 appears to be a sub-species of 382. 



48. Species 394, 395, and 396 appear to be one and the same species, 

 394 being the first named. 



51. Species 419 appears to be now an established species. 



52. ^ Note forms of Mirafra javanica in Novit. Zool., xii., p. 237 (1905). 

 56. According to Ernst Hartert, species 441 should read as a sub-species 



of E. orientalis. 



58. Species 455 should read C. saturatus, Hodg. , with C. intermedius 

 acting as a synonym. Hand List Birds Brit. Mus., ii., p. 158 

 (1900). 



Species 456 has C. inornatus as synonym. 

 Chalcococcyx inalayanus, an accidental species in the North. 

 63. To "Furcula present" add " except in Spathopterus." 

 66. Species 518 is a variety of 517, both characters appearing at times in 

 the one specimen. 



68. "Swift Lorikeet" should read " Swift Parrakeet, " and, the genus 



being preoccupied, Euphema (Wagler) might be substituted. 



69. Species 537 is said by Ernst Hartert to be a sub-species of 536. 



72. Species 557 and 559 are one and the same, the latter being the adult 

 form. The description of 557 appears to be of the young of 

 558. In species 558 "no grey crescent" should read "no 

 white crescent," while the distribution is extended to area 9. 



74. M. duperreyi tumulus differs from M. duperreyi by its darker and 



more rufous upper side and larger size (Hartert). 



75. Species 574 and 575 one and the same. 



77. Species 584 is said by R. B. Sharpe (Hand List Birds Brit. Mus., 



p. 102) to be a Tongatabu species and extinct, P. plumbea, 

 Gray, being our bird. 



78. To follow 589 is the species G. frontata, Wall. , new to Australia. 



Sharpe's Hand List Birds Brit. Mus. No specimen is recorded 

 from this country. It differs from G. tenebrosa, Gld., in having 

 the under surface dark slaty-grey instead of light grey, and by 

 having the light colour of the toes above red like the tarsi 

 instead of yellow. Hab. : 2. 



80. Species 602 is differentiated by Hartert from the New Zealand 

 species as H. unicolor fuliginosus, Gld. 



