No. 1.] THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 13 



that different workers have had different methods of 

 measurement, but I cannot in many instances reconcile 

 Gould's figures in any manner with Gould's specimens. 



Gould's C. dwnetorum (Proc. Zool. Soc. [Lond.], 

 1845, p. 19) was given to a bird from Port Essington, 

 and can be used for the North-west Australian bird. 

 With many specimens before me it is an easily recog- 

 nisable form. I have not seen any extra -Australian 

 specimens which can be confused with either C. dume- 

 torum or C. variolosus, therefore C. tymbonomus 

 Miiller can be neglected as far as Australian forms are 

 concerned. 



North's reasons for rejecting C. palliolatus Latham 

 are sound, and it is interesting that Gould (Handb. 

 B. Austr., Vol. I., p. 622, 1865) wrote : " That this 

 bird (G. osculans) is not identical with the Cuculus 

 palliolatus of Latham, as supposed by M.M. Cabanis, 

 and Heine, is, in my opinion, quite certain ; Latham's 

 description does not agree with it in any particular "... 



The italics are mine. Apparently this definite state- 

 ment has been simply ignored but never refuted, as it 

 is absolutely true. 



Gould described his Chalcites osculans from the interior 

 of New South Wales, and comparison of eastern specimens 

 with a nice series from North-western Australia, shows 

 the latter to be easily separable by their smaller size 

 and paler coloration above and below. These I name : 



OWENAVIS OSCULANS ROGERSI, Subsp. n., 



type no. 8385, Parry's Greek, North-west Australia. 



The species of Chrysococcyx are not so easily disposed of. 



Cucidus basalis was described by Horsfield (Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. [Lond], Vol. XIII., p. 179, 1821) from Java. 

 This name has till recently been used for the Australian 

 birds, but with the type, which is almost beyond com- 

 parison, and typical specimens before me, I am able to 

 separate the Australian form, and moreover can indicate 

 two forms as being confined to Australia. For the East 

 Australian form, which differs from Chrysococcyx basalis 



