186 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. I 



Anthochcera* Horsfield and Vigors. A. carunculata 

 White's Voy., pi. 6. 



Here again Melipthaga Lewin is not correctly typified? 

 and when Gray drew up his List Genera Birds in 1840 

 (p. 15) he noted this, and there introduced Meliomis for 

 the group of which Cerihia novce-liollandicE Latham is 

 the type, and absolutely designated as type of MeUphaga 

 Lewin (Ptilotis Sw.) — M. chrysalis (Lath.) Lewin, 

 B. of N. H., pi. 5 : M. Lewinii Swains, 

 and included : 



Zanthomiza Swains., Z. phrygia (Lew.) Swnins., Lew., 

 B. of N. H., pi. 4. 



Subsequently this action seems to have been altered^ 

 but there is no valid reason for any amendment, the 

 species M. chrysalis Lewin (nee. Latham) = M. lewinii 

 (Swainson) being one of the original Lewinian species 

 and the only one left in Lewin's genus as early as 1826. 

 In my Reference List I admitted (Nov. Zool., 

 Vol. XVIII., p. 410, 1912] MeUphaga Lewin, 1808, with 

 type (by monotypy) M. phrygia Shaw. This was quite 

 erroneous, as I have just shown four species were included 

 by Lewin in his genus. The following corrections are 

 therefore necessary : — 



p. 401. Zanthomiza Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., 

 p. 326, 1837, 

 Type (by monotypy), Z. phrygia, (Shaw), 

 must replace 



MeUphaga Auct., not of Lewin, 1808 ; 

 and on p. 403, MeUphaga Lewin, Birds of New Holland, 

 p. 7, 1808, 

 Type (by sub-designation, Gray, 1840), M. chrysalis 

 Lewin .(nee. Latham) = 11. lewinii (Swainson), 

 must replace 



Ptilotis Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 326, 

 1837, same type. 



* I hardly think it advisable to discriminate these subordinate 

 types hy subgeneric names ; but as that of Anthochcera has been 

 already done, I have designated what appear to me to be three 

 of the others. 



