84 MATHEWS— Birds of North and North-West Australia. 



and others at Palmerston, in the Northern Territory. These 

 will be noted in the body of the work. 



The notes have been worked up from the carefully kept 

 notebook of the collector. The exceedingly accurate descrip- 

 tions of the soft parts, marks Bowyer-Bower as a very keen 

 observer. These were noted as soon as the specimen was 

 killed, as on some occasions he notes "the bird had been dead 

 some time before I saw it, so cannot be sure of the colour of 

 the soft parts." 



This young and ardent field naturalist was the means of 

 first recording many birds from the North-west of Australia. 

 His Pisobia damascensis is the only one to date recorded as 

 killed in Australia. 



Most of this collection that reached England is in either 

 the British Museum or my own. Over 600 skins of 150 species 

 and sub-species were collected. 



cf. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc N.S.W., ser. ii., vol. I., p. 

 1,096, 1887, and vol. II., p. 165, 1887, where it will be seen that 

 certain birds are recorded from Derby, but in this list that 

 follows their real locality is given. Thus Halcyon macleayi 

 is from Palmerston, Colluriocincla rufogaster is from Thursday 

 Island, as is also Ptilotis notata. 



7. Synoicus ypsilophorus rogbrsi. Dark brown Quail. 



Coturnix australis rogersi (Mathews), Nov. Zool., Vol. 

 XVIII., p. 179, 1912. Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 



Nos. 109, Male; 279, Male; 329, Male— June and Septem- 

 ber, 1886. 



Length, 7.2 to 7.8 inches. Irides, dull red; bill, dark 

 brown at the point, bluish at the base; legs and feet, yellow. 



16. Chrysauchcena humeralis inexpectata. Western Barred- 

 shouldered Dove. 

 Geopelia humeralis inexpectata (Mathews), Nov. Zool., Vol. 

 XVIII., p. 186, 1912. Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 



No. 222— Male. Length, 12.6 inches. (27/8/86). 



No. 236. Length, 12.8 inchees. (29/8/86). Irides, 

 straw yellow; orbital space, rose pink; bill, very pale bluish 

 white; feet and legs, blood-red; nails, horn colour. 



16. Geopelia placida placida. Northern Ground Dove. 



