94 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



when Mr. Robert Hall read his paper on " Additional Records," 

 as published in the Victorian Naturalist, vol. xvii., p. 59, I 

 crave space for a few critical remarks thereon. 



I have always lauded the good work done by Mr. Hall, 

 therefore I think he will not take amiss the comments I offer 

 now. 



To commence with " Records for Area 3 — Southern Queens- 

 land " (including Richmond and Clarence Rivers, New South 

 Wales), and referring to Sphecotheres Jlaviventris and Pcecilodryas 

 superciliosa, Mr. S. W. Jackson previously kindly furnished me 

 with these extensions for my long-delayed book. The former is 

 correct ; but the latter, judging by its nest and eggs (carefully 

 compared with those of P. superciliosa), is P. capito, already 

 recorded for the district. Monarcha melanopsis is in Gould's 

 "Table of Distribution" (Handbook, ii., p. 587). Manorhina 

 melanophrys is in the same "Table" (p. 591), while Geocichla 

 heinii is recorded for Moreton Bay in the Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v., 

 p. 157, and for the Richmond and Clarence district in Seebohm's 

 " Monograph of the Turdidce." 



I shall pass over Areas 6 and 8 and deal with " Area 9 — 

 Western Australia," at which I have been labouring for the last 

 decade in ornithological matters with Mr. T. Carter, whose 

 authority (in some instances by skins identified by me) Mr. Hall 

 frequently quotes : — 



Accipiter cirrhocephalus. — Original record, Gould's Handbook, 



ii., p. 585. 

 Sphenostoma cristatum. — Original record, Campbell, Roy. Soc. 



Vict, in., p. 3 (1890). 

 Petrochelidon nigricans. — First recorded by Gould, not Ramsay. 

 Podargus strigoides. — Recorded by Hartert (Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xvi., p. 631), not Le Souef. 

 Calopsittacus novce-hollandice. — Already recorded by Gould (ii., p. 



593)- 

 Turnix varia. — Gould records T. scintillans for the Abrolhos 



Islands. According to Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (xxii., p. 



551) T. varia and T. scintillans are synonymous. 

 Squatarola helvetica. — First recorded by Gould (ii., p. 594), not 



Ramsay. 

 Charadrius dominicus. — First recorded by Gould (C. orientalis, 



ii., p. 594), not Carter. 

 Ochthodromus bicinctus. — First recorded by Gould, not Ramsay. 

 Calidris arenaria. — First recorded by Campbell, Roy. Soc. 



Vict., vii., p. 201 (1895). 

 Demiegretta sacra and Nycticorax caledonicus have both been 



previously recorded by Gould (ii., p. 595). 

 Phaeton rubricauda. — First recorded by Campbell, Proc. Aust. 



Ass., ii., p. 496 (1890). 



