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Its food consists of fish and reptiles. The specimen in the 

 Manchester Museum was brought by Mr. George Johnson 

 from the neighbourhood of Swan River. It is a compact 

 and strong bird, somewhat larger than the Osprey. I have 

 designated it Hamirostra montana. It is called the Broad- 

 Tailed Mountain Eagle by the settlers." 



This aprpears to refer to the Black-breasted Buzzard, Buteo 

 melttTiosternon, Gould, 1840, for which Kaup introduced the 

 genus Gypoictinia in 1847, a year later than Brown's 

 genus name. 



Dr. TattersaU, Keeper of the Manchester Museum, sent us 

 the following note : "I have just come across a copy of the 

 printed " Report of the Council of the Manchester Natural 

 History Society" issued in 1842. On page four is written 

 under date 31st January, 1842, ' The accompanying list 

 of Donations will show that many interesting additions have 

 been made to the Museum during the last year. In the 

 department of Ornithology alone, nearly seven hundred speci- 

 mens have been added to the general collection ; among 

 them a pair of Wild Turkeys from North America, and that 

 remarkable bird from New Holland which formed part of the 

 splendid donation of David Cannon McConnell, Esq. This 

 bird exhibits a combination of characters irreconcilable with 

 any genera of " Le Begne Animal " of Cuvier, or of the arrange- 

 ment of Temminck, and which Captain Brown suggests may 

 be constituted a new genus under the appellation of 

 Chenogeranus Australis, or Australian Goose-Crane.' " 



We have not traced the other genus name also recorded in 

 synonymy, Pileata Brown, but it may also occur in some 

 similar extract. 



As the few copies of this work we have traced all consist 

 of some parts in wrappers and none complete in themselves 

 save one shows the twelve parts " all pubhshed," and this 

 agrees with the published data, we have extracted the classifi- 

 cation in detail for reference As we have fourteen parts 

 in view now and a record of sixteen some of these may be 

 found later without wrappers, and as there is no pagination 

 for gauging such the complete details should immediately 



