THE AUSTRAL AVIAN 

 RECORD. 



Vol. IV., No. 7. March 7th, 1922. 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



Additions and Corrections to my Check List, 1920 165 



An Extraordinary Bird Book . . . . . . 172 



Capt^vin Thomas Brown, Ornithologist . . . . 176 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO MY CHECK 



LIST, 1920. 



By Gregory M. Mathews. 



Dr. C. W. Richmond has sent me over some notes concerning 

 type designations which I had not given in the above List, 

 and these I herewith record along with others I have recognised 

 through these notes. Laubmann has pubhshed in the Archiv 

 fur Naturg., 85 Jahr, 1919, pp. 137-168, publ. Aug. 1921. a 

 Kritische Untersuchungen liber die Genotypfixierungen in 

 Lesson's " Manuel d'Ornithologie " 1828, recording in detail 

 all the types named in that work. This was not novel in any 

 respect and nearly all his remarks had been anticipated in 

 general usage in both England and America. However, in 

 a general review such as Laubmann's, an item or two hitherto 

 overlooked is brought to light and the most important to 

 Australians is ignored by Laubmann through his general 

 lack of knowledge of recent contemporary literature. Thus 

 as the type of Prion Lacepede he aclniowledges Lesson's type 

 selection ignorant of the fact that although Lesson wrote 

 " Le type de ce genre est le petrel bleu, procellaria coerulea et 



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