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I therefore wrote to Paris, but as the authorities were 

 unwilling to send the specimen to England on account 

 of its age and the risk, I forwarded to M. Menegaux 

 coloured drawings of the heads of the two Australian 

 species, showing the differences in the bare parts of the 

 face, which are the same in immature and adult. 

 M. Menegaux carefully examined the specimen, and also 

 sent me a drawing which leaves no doubt as to the 

 identity of Vieillot's species : and the above change 

 becomes necessary. The nomenclature will be : — 



Carbo fuscescens fuscescens Vieillot. 



Carbo fuscescens tunneyi Mathews. 



325. Ph^thon lepturus Dorothea, subsp. n. 

 Australian White-tailed Tropic-Bird. 



Differs from P. I. lepturus Daudin in having less black 

 on the primaries, and in having a red bill. 



Type, Queensland, Australia. ^-"- .■ - ' - ; ^^f/lfoC, 



Range, East Australian seas. Extra limital. 



On p. 189, Vol. I., of this Journal, I pointed out that 

 Falco lunulatus Latham, 1801, was pre-occupied by 

 Falco lunulatus Daudin, 1800. I there suggested that 

 " frontatus " Gould was the next name to use. kSince 

 then my friend Dr. Charles Richmond has sent me 

 the dates of publication of Swainson's works, and I 

 find that Swainson's Animals in Menageries came out 

 in January 1st, 1838, while Gould's Synopsis of the Birds 

 of Australia, part iii., was not published till April, 1838. 



This necessitates the following changes : — 



368. Falco longipennis longipennis Swainson, 



replaces 

 Falco lunulatus lunulatus Latham, 

 and a synonym of this is Falco melanotus White and 

 Mellor, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 164, 1913 ; Flinders Island. 



369. Falco longipennis murchisonianus Mathews, 



replaces 

 Falco lunulatus murchisonianus. 



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