THE AUSTRAL AVIAN 

 RECORD. 



Vol. III., No. 1. June 30th, 1915. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



On Columba pallida Latham ... ... ... ... 1 



On the Ornithology of the Dictionnaire des 



Sciences Natttrelles (Levrault) ... 5 



Maperia godmanm ... ... ... ... ... ... 21 



Two New Subspecies 24 



ON COLUMBA PALLIDA LATHAM. 



By G. M. Mathews. 



Plate I. 



In the Gen. Synopsis Birds, Suppl. II. 1801, p. 270, Latham 

 described a " Pale P(igeon). The bill and legs in this bird 

 are brown, the general colour of the plumage greenish 

 white, the head and neck inclining to ash colour ; the greater 

 quills are plain, but the rest marked irregularly with black 

 on each side the shafts ; the two middle tail-feathers are 

 dusky, the others very pale or whitish ; the outer edge of 

 the wings and the quills are dusky. Inhabits New Holland J' 



Upon this was based the name Columba pallida, given in 

 the Index Ornith. Suppl. 1801, p. lx. 



This name does not seem to have come into recognition 

 until Gould, in the Introduction to the Birds of Australia, 

 8vo ed., p. 67, 1848, cited it as a synonym of Cuculus inornaius 

 Vig. and Horsf., as figured in his Birds Austr., Vol. IV., 

 pi. 85. It may be here noted that Gould assisted Strickland 

 in the examination of the Lambert drawings, and apparently 



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