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coloration is more yellow " while the dark mark across 

 the face is brownish instead of dull black ; (3) similar, 

 except for size being smaller." 



I cannot see any difference between these diagnostic 

 characters and the ones I have given, though, as I note 

 above, I consider my forms to be of subspecific value 

 only, and moreover the material I handled convinced 

 me of the necessity of naming these forms. I would 

 also record that I hold a very conservative view as to 

 what constitutes specific difference, and that a very 

 large number of my subspecific forms would be granted 

 specific rank by many good fellow- workers. 



I have here to thank Mr. Witmer Stone for sending 

 me over a list of the Gouldian type -birds and their 

 localities. This necessitates re-naming about half the 

 birds described in the following pages : — 



1 9. EXCALFACTORIA CHLNENSIS CAIRNSiE, Subsp. 11. 



Northern Chestnut-bellied Quail. 



Differs from E. c. australis in being much darker above, 

 and in having the belly darker chestnut. 



Type, Cairns, Queensland, No. 11,796. 



Range, North Queensland. 



19a. Excalfactoria chinensis australis Gould. 

 Type from South Australia. 



42. The earliest reference is 



Carpophaga assimilis Gould, in Jardine's Contr. Ornith., 

 1850, p. (160) 106. Cape York. 



Note. — Through the delay in publication of the Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London, the diagnoses published in Jardine's 

 Contributions to Ornithology have precedence. Seven are published 

 and six of these do not cause alterations save in the reference ; the 

 seventh necessitates a re-arrangement which will be duly noted in its 

 place, Nos. 1133 and 1134. 



