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AcantMza flavigasta Diggles, as Ramsay suggested, 

 refers to Gerygone albogularis, and as the type-locality is 

 Normanton, unless series should indicate differences, 

 Diggles 's name must be used for the form I named Gerygone 

 albogularis queenslandica — Reference List No. 658. 



Cuculus brisbanensis Diggles, is not however based 

 on the young of Cuculus optatus Gould, as Ramsay thought, 

 but upon the young of Cuculus rubricatus, and as the 

 type-locality is Brisbane it must be quoted in the 

 synonymy of the typical subspecies — Reference List, 

 No. 577. 



Lamprococcyx modesta, as Diggles and Ramsay both 

 indicated, is based upon the young of the basalis group. 

 As the north-eastern form seems to be separable, Diggles's 

 name can be preserved for that. 



The alterations and synonyms will be noted in their 

 places in the following paper. 



So much for this paper of Diggles. 



Upon mentioning to my friend Mr. Chas. Hedley, at 

 present in England, that I had had trouble in tracing 

 these Diggles's bird-names, he referred me to the Inter- 

 national Catalogue of Scientific Literature, Queensland 

 volume, published in 1899, which contained a Biblio- 

 graphy of Scientific Papers upon Queensland. 



This reference has indicated the fact that the preceding 

 paper is only one out of four by Diggles published in 

 the Proceedings of the Queensland Philosophical Society, 

 in the years 1873-6. 



The titles of the other three and the new species there 

 described by Diggles appear to be : — 



1. " Some Australian Birds," by S. Diggles, Proc. 

 Queensl. Philos. Soc, 1873, Paper 1, 2 pp. 



In this paper Diggles has described two new species, 

 Milvus striatus and Eulabeornis griseoventris . Ramsay 

 has suggested (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 205, 

 1876) that these are both extra- Australian species, perhaps 

 from the Aru Islands. He absolutely identified the 

 former with Henicopernis longicauda Garnot ; if the 



