On the Birds of Southern Tibet. 57 



How Gould could refer the Corvus paradoxus* of Latham 

 to the Wattled Honey-eater (Anthochcera carunculata) of 

 Australia I am at a loss to understand. It was founded 

 by Latham on the " Wattled Crow " of his ' General Synopsis 

 of Birds' (Suppl. ii. p. 119). In the latter description 

 Latham remarks : — " The feathers at the top of the head and 

 neck edged with whitish, on the cheeks a little downy, at the 

 bottom of which arises a cylindrical caruncle ten lines in 

 length, hanging on each side of the neck ; throat white, . . . ; 

 tail greatly cuneiform, each feather tipped with white." The 

 length of the wattle alone, which is much shorter in the 

 Australian species, would preclude it from being the Wattled 

 Honey-eater (Anthochcera carunculata) , and in other respects 

 it entirely disagrees with Latham's original description of the 

 latter species. The Corvus paradoxus of Latham is un- 

 doubtedly the Great Wattled Honey- eater of Tasmania, 

 figured and described by Gould in his folio edition of the 

 1 Birds of Australia ' f under the name of Anthochcera inauris. 

 That name, however, should give way to Latham's older 

 name, and the Great Wattled Honey-eater of Tasmania should 

 in future be known as Anthochcera paradoxa. 



Finally, I may remark that in the ' Catalogue of Birds ' 

 (ix. p. 262) Dr. Gadow writes Vigors and Horsfield's generic 

 name as " Acanthochcera." But, as shown on reference to 

 the original description in the Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 320 

 (1826), where the derivation is given, the name was written 

 Anthochcera, and I see no reason for altering it. 



IV. — On the Birds of Southern Tibet. 

 By Captain H. J. Walton, Indian Medical Service. 



(Plate II.) 



In September 1903 I was appointed Medical Officer and 

 Botanist to the Tibet Frontier Commission. Colonel Young- 

 husband and the Commission were then at Khamba Jong. 



* Suppl. Ind. Orn. p. xxvi (1801). 



t Birds Austr., fol. ed. vol. iv. pi. liv. (1848). 



