136 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. IV. 



List, p. 93, and Check List, p. 59. 



The name of the tyj)e of Nyroca sliould be Anas rufa Linne 

 1761, not A. nyroca Linne, error for A. nyroca Giildenstadt 

 1709. 



List, p. 107, and Check List, p. 68/9. 

 Alter reference to Blagrus to 



Blagrus Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., Index p. 48 (Aug.) 

 1849, ex Blyth MS. Type (by original designation) Pontomtus 

 leucogaster = Falco leucogaster Gmelin. 



List, p. 113, and Check List, p. 73. Add to synonymy of 

 Pandion haliaetus 



Pandion hali^etos var. australis Burmeister, Verz. Zool. 

 Mus. Halle, p. 24, (pref. March 15) 1850 : new name for 

 P. leucoce-phalus Gould. 



List, p. 144, and Check List, p. 96. 



The earliest reference to Hirundolanius reads Buller, Manual 

 Birds New Zeal., p. 7, (pref. Jan. 2) 1882, ex Clarke MS. 

 Type (by monotypy) H. cmruhus = Eurystomus pacifictis 

 subsp. (Latham). 



Add to synonymy of E. o. jjacificus 



Hirundolanius CiERULEUS Buller, ib. : Westport, New 



Zealand (a straggler only.) 



List, p. 169. To the synonymy of Melanodryas cucuUata add 

 Saxicola jardinii Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Liim. Soc. 

 (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 236, Feb. 17, 1827 : New South Wales 

 (based on a female). 



List, p. 209. The earliest reference reads 



Galamoherpe australis Lewin's Nat. Hist. Birds New South 

 Wales, 1838 (ed. Eyton), Index of Synonyms for plate 18, 

 Reed Warbler : Paramatta, New South Wales. 



and revaluate 



CoNOPODBRAS AUSTRALIS MELLORi Mathews for the South 

 Australian subspecies. 



