170 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. IV. 



Vieill. ; et Dilophe, dilophus Vieill. ' L'espece qui sert de 

 type au genre philantlie avait deja porte M. Vieillot a etablir 

 le genre creadion, qu'il plaQait a cote des etourneaux, par une 

 analogie forcee et tout-a-fait fictive.' " 



While quibbles might be raised concerning this being a 

 rigid type designation, nothing can be urged against the 

 clean statement made by Lesson in the Compl. de Oeuvres 

 Buffon, Vol. IX., p. 7, 1837, when he wrote: "Creadion 

 Vieillot. Le type de ce genre, et sans contredit la seule espece 

 qu'on doive y admettre est le creadion a pendeloques^ , qui 

 habite la terre de Diemen." 



^Pie a pendeloques Daudin t. 11, pi. 16. 

 Creadion carunculatus Vieill. Gal., pi. 94. 

 Merops carunculatus Lath. 

 Corvus paradoxus id., etc. 



Consequently Creadion is only available for the Tasmanian 

 bird and must displace Dyottornis, which I lately proposed 

 for it. 



p. 314. Coronica Gould, Synops. Birds Aust. , pt. I., Jan. 1837. 

 Type (by subsequent designation, Selby, Cat. Gen. Subgen. 

 Types Birds, p. 16, 1840), Coronica fuliginosa Gould. 



The following dates of publications are of interest : 



Horsfield in Zool. Researches in Java 1821, in the text of 

 Tapirus malayanus says that Vol. XIII. , pt. i., of the Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. (Lond.) was published in May, 1821. 



Shaw, Zool. New Holland, Vol. I., pt. i., 1794, pt. ii., 1794, 

 pt. III., 1795 (Cf. Gottingisches Journal, Vol. L, Heft. 2, 

 p. 143). 



Gray List Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. iii., p. 95, 1844. Received 

 by Boston Society Nat. Hist, on or before Oct. 2, 1844. 



Seebohm Geogr. Dist. Charad., 1888. This is given in Zool. 

 Record (Aves) for the year 1887. And Seebohm sent 

 the Smithsonian Institute a copy with a dedication written 

 by him, dated December 25, 1887. 



