120 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. IV. 



to consider these paintings as more or less exact copies, if not 

 originals, of the remarks. 



p. 371. Black-breasted Cr(ow). Corvusmelanogaster, 



p. XXV. 



" Inhabits Port Jackson." Under China Owl, p. 368, is 

 written " for this, and many of the following, I am indebted 

 to General Davies." 



This seems to be based on the figure on p. 59, it agrees so 

 well, but the figure on p. 121, a good painting of the RoUer, 

 does not agree with the description on p. 371 of the Pacific 

 RoUer. 



p. 372. Azure K(ingfisher). Alcedo azurea, p. xxxii. 

 " Inliabits Norfolk Island." 

 On page 5 there is an excellent figure of this species, which 

 might have been described from it. 



p. 373. White-browecl Thr(ush). Turdus hucophrys, 

 p. xlv. 

 " Pound at Port Jackson, described from a drawing made 

 from a specimen brought from thence by Governor King.'' 



The painting on page 65 showed this previously unidentified 

 species to have been based upon the Black and White Fantail. 



p. 373. White-eared Thr(ush). Turdus leucotis, 

 p. xliv. 

 " This inhabits the same parts as the Black-eyed Thrush, 

 and is supposed by some to be the other sex of that bird." 



On page 11 are two paintings, one of this species, the other 

 of the Black eyed Thrush, p. 181 {Turdus melanops), and this 

 would seem to be the basis of the description of the first named 

 and the source of Latham's comment above quoted, from the 

 fact of the two being painted together. 



While the facts do not prove, they decidedly suggest, that 

 the volume under notice contains figures of birds described 

 by Latham as from the drawings of General Davies. It is 

 possible that these are copies, or more probably, simultaneous 

 paintings from the specimens from which General Davies's 

 drawings were made. In any case until other pictures are 

 found, these drawings can be regarded as typical paintings of 



