6 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. II. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO MY 



REFERENCE LIST. 



By Gregory M. Mathews. 



81. EULABEORNTS PHILIPPENSIS YORKI, Subsp. n. 



Northern Buff-banded Rail. 



Differs from E. p. australis in its smaller size and in 

 having the buff band on the chest much darker. 

 Type, Cape York. 

 Range, Cape York, North Queensland. 



247b. Esacus magnirostris queenslandtctjs, subsp. n. 

 Eastern Long-billed Stone-Plover. 



Differs from E. in. neglecta in being darker above. 

 V^ing, 283 mm. ; culmen, 74 ; tarsus, 97. 



Type, Mackay, Queensland. 



Range, North Queensland. 



313. Carbo fuscescens Vieillot, 

 replaces 

 Carbo gouldi. 



In the Nouv. Diet d'Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 86, 

 1817, Vieillot described Hydrocorax fuscescens, writing: 

 " On trouve cet oiseau dans I'Australasiae." The 

 specimen was in immature plumage and Vieillot added : 

 " Son plumage terne me fait soupconner que ce n'est 

 pas une espece particuKere ; mais je ne puis determiner 

 celle dont il fait partie, ne connoissant que son exterieur." 



When Pucheran (Rev. Zool. 1850, p. 625) reviewed 

 the VieiUotian types, he confirmed VieiUot's doubt by 

 concluding that it was simply the immature of P. varius 

 Gmelin. But he added that it was collected by Peron 

 and Lesueur and labelled " Timor." In the Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., H. fuscescens is therefore included 

 in the synonymy of P. varius, a New Zealand bird. 

 But the student of Australasian ornithology knows that 

 Peron and Lesueur did not collect in New Zealand, and 

 also that much of the material gathered by these workers 

 was wrongly labelled in Paris, Austrahan specimens 

 being credited to Timor and vice versa. 



