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52a. Geopelia placid a hedleyi, subsp. n. 

 Cape York Ground-Dove. 



Differs from G. p. tranquilla in its darker coloration 

 and smaller size. 



Type, Cape York, North Queensland, No. 12,251. 

 Range, Capo York. 



138. Add as synonym — 



Procellaria pardela Oken, Lehrb. fiir Naturg.. Vol. III., 

 Zool., p. 533, 1816. Cape Seas. 



144. Pelecanoides uriistatrix belcheri, subsp. n. 



Australian Diving Petrel. 



Differs from P. u. urinatrix in being smaller, and in 

 having the under surface of the wings whiter and the 

 grey of the breast not joined in a band. The nostrils 

 are also larger. 



Type, Australian seas, No. 13,938. 



Range, Australian seas (breeding in the islands). 



233xi. LlMICOLA FALCINELLUS SIBIRICA. 



I have received this bird from Melville Island ; so 

 its Australian range is now North-west Australia and 

 Northern Territory. 



When recording this bird for the first time for Australia 

 {ante, p. 31), I gave the history of the specific name, and 

 would point out that the second paragraph on p. 32 

 contains a slight error. 



The date of the Naturhist. Dannemark quotation 

 should be 1765 not 1763. 



The correct quotation of the earlier elate should read : 

 Scolopax falcinellus Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, Vol. I., 

 p. 402, 1763. The natural history portion there con- 

 tained was reprinted under the title I gave, two years 

 later. And, unfortunately, I gave the later quotation 



