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The extraordinary feature of the new race is the absence of 

 red on the abdomen combined with the presence of reel under 

 tail-coverts, while the bright yellow colouring of the abdomen 

 and the green of the lower back are very striking. Neverthe- 

 less the authorities at the British Museum are agreed that the 

 value of the bird appears to be subspecific, and that later 

 absolute connecting links will be found. 



The following refer to my 1913 List : — 



p. 286. Myzantha Vigors and Horsfield, 1827. Type (by 

 subsequent designation, Lesson, Manuel d'Orn., Vol. II., 

 p. 67, 1828), M. garrulus Latham. 



p. 294. Anthus'BQch.iiiein, 1805. Type (by subsequent designa- 

 tion, Selby, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Types Birds, p. 12, 1840), 

 Anthus pratensis. 



p. 288. Creadion Vieillot, Analyse Nouv. Ornith., p. 36, 

 April 14, 1816. Type (by subsequent designation. Lesson, 

 Compl. de CEuvres Buffon, Vol. IX., p. 7, 1837), Corvus 

 •paradoxus Latham = Daudin. 



This will replace Dyottornis Mathews, 1912. 



Read 



Creadion paradoxus 



Creadion paradoxus paradoxus 



Creadion paradoxus westernensis 



Creadion was introduced by Vieillot in his Analyse nouv. 

 Ornith., p. 34, 1816, with a diagnosis a^nd attached thereto 

 were three names thus : " Sturnus carunculatus, Merops 

 carimculatu's , Corvus paradoxus Lath." 



The following year in the Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Not. , nouv. ed. , 

 Vol. VIII. , p. 390, the genus was fully described, and no type 

 was selected, but two divisions were indicated. In the Ency. 

 Method, and in the Galerie des Oiseaux nothing was added but 

 in the latter book the Merops is figured. 



Lesson in the Manuel d' Ornith., Vol. II., p. 68, 1828, wrote : 

 " PhiUanthe, Anthocoera Horsf. et Vie;. : Creadion, creadion 



