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name C. austrulis, as applied by Gould in liis ' Handbook,' 

 for the Raven, but under that heading Gould united the 

 Raven and Crow ! 



The Corvus australis, Gmelin [Syst, Nat. i. p. 365 (1788), 

 founded on the South-Sea Raven^ Latham, Gen. Syn. i. 

 pt. i, p. 369 (1781)], is said to have inhabited the Tonga or 

 Friendly Islands, but, so far as is known, no species of Crow 

 is met -with in that group. Latham's description is very 

 vague, but, if the bird described really came from Australia, 

 must apply to the Australian Raven, for he writes : " the 

 feathers beneath the chin are of a remarkably loose texture." 



Summing up the above, we arrive at the following 

 conclusions : — 



I. The White-eyed Crow, or Australian Raven (commonly 

 known as C. australis), is the Curvus coronoides, 

 Vigors & Horsfield, and must bear that name. 



II. The Crow, or Hazel-eyed Crow (commonly known as 

 C. coronoides) , must bear another name {Corvus 

 cecilcE, Mathews, vide infra), as C. australis cannot 

 be used for the fbllowing reasons : — 



a. Corvus australis, Gmel., is no doubt a Raven, as is 



shown by Latham^s description. 



b. Corvus australis as used by Gould in his ' Hand- 



book' includes both the Raven and the Crow. 



c. Corone australis as used by Sharpe in the ' Cata- 



logue of Birds,' iii. p. 37, is a pure synonym of 

 C. coronoides. 



I therefore propose to adopt the only available name, viz. : 

 Corvus CEciLiE, Mathews, 

 a name given to the Crow inhabiting North-western 

 Australia. (Type examined.) 



In a paper just published in the ' Novitates Zoologicae,' 

 xviii. pp. 442-3 (1912), Mr. G. M. Mathews has given a 

 Reference List to the Birds of Australia, in which he 

 divides the Raven, Crow, and Jackdaw into no less tlian 



