THE AUSTRAL AVIAN 

 RECORD. 



A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL DEVOTED PRIMARILY 

 TO THE STUDY OF THE AUSTRALIAN AVIFAUNA. 



Vol. 1., No. 2. April 2nd, 1912. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Additions ... to my Reference List . . 25 

 Descriptions of Eggs 53 



Additions and Corrections to my Reference List 

 to the Birds of Australia. 



In the Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIIL, pp. 171-455, 1912, I 

 put forward a Reference List wherein I gave, to the best 

 of my ability, the original references and the complete syn- 

 onymy of all the forms I was able to recognise. Through 

 lack of specimens I had to lump localities, though it 

 appeared quite certain many more subspecies would be 

 determinable when material was available. 



I have now to propose many new forms, through the 

 acquisition of large collections from Melville Island, South 

 Australia, and Northern Territory. The last-mentioned 

 was that made by Dr. Dahl, and from which Petrophassa 

 rufipennis Collett and Psephotus dissimilis Collett were 

 described. Stud^r of this collection* has enabled me to 

 differentiate many new forms from North-west Australia, 

 which previously I had been compelled to include with 

 Northern Territory subspecies, owing to the absence of 

 typical examples. 



* Kindly sent on loan, by Professor Collett, of Norway. 



