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126 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. I 



NEW BIRDS. 



In the last number of this Journal (p. 91), I included : — 



No. 749a. Monarcha alecto alecto Temminck : Dry- 

 mophila alecto Temminck and Laugier, Plan. Col. 

 d'Ois., Vol. IV., PL 480, 70 livr., 1827, Celebes. 

 New Guinea Shining Flycatcher. 

 Range, Cape York, North Queensland (fide Campbell, 

 Emu, Vol. XII., p. 20, 1912). 



Campbell's identification was probably made on the 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., as quoted, but the 

 volume was written as long ago as 1879. I have now 

 received specimens from Cape York, and upon com- 

 parison with Celebes birds they prove abundantly distinct, 

 as was expected ; the Cape York birds differ from 

 typical birds in having a narrower bill, while the wing 

 is longer. Though Campbell's record was the first of 

 P. alecto from Australia, specimens had been obtained 

 by most collectors at Cape York, viz. Macgillivray as 

 long ago as 1849, Coppinger in 1881, and Meek more 

 recently. All these however had been called P. nitidus, 

 and are all in the British Museum, being received since 

 the date of publication of the Catalogue of Birds. 

 Macgillivray's specimen was from the Gould collection 

 and was marked " ? sp. no v." I propose to call the 

 Cape York bird : — 



749a. Monarcha alecto campbelli, subsp. n. 



Cape York Shining Flycatcher. 



Type, Cape York, No. 14278. 



Range, Cape York, North Queensland. 



955a. MalttruS lamberti morgani, White. 



Differs from M . I. assimilis in having much darker 

 chestnut scapulars. 



Type, from Lake Gairdner, South Australia. 



G. M. Mathews. 



