72 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN EECORD [Vol. II. 



A NEW LIST OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 

 By Gregory M. Mathews. 



The preceding " Additions and Corrections " complete 

 those based on my " Reference List " published in the 

 Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., January, 1912. The whole of 

 those pubhshed in the Austral Avian Record since that 

 date, including the new genera published therein as well 

 as all the corrections made in my Birds of AustraHa, 

 have now been incorporated into a List of the Birds of 

 AustraHa, which will be pubhshed in a few weeks' time. 

 This List will include all the synonyms I have yet traced, 

 and I also give generic synonyms so that easy reference 

 to all that has been done regarding AustraUan Ornithology 

 will be possible. It wiU include all the subspecies 

 hitherto named, grouped together under a binomial 

 species-name : by this means the number of specific 

 forms admitted can be quickly observed, and in cases 

 where the typical subspecies is an extra-hmital one, 

 that fact is noted and the original reference and type- 

 locaHty are given in brackets. As Appendices will be 

 given " Lists of Hypothetical Species " as regards 

 AustraHa, " Indeterminable or Undetermined Species," as 

 well as a '"' List of the Birds of the PhilHpian Sub-Region." 

 I hope this List will prove indispensable to every 

 working ornithologist, whatever his views may be, 

 and I am certain that diHgent application wiU increase 

 the interest of every AustraHan worker in his favourite 

 study. The immensity of the work to be done in 

 connection with the AustraHan Avifauna, the wonderful 

 problems regarding distribution to be solved, the modes 

 of dispersal of the many subspecies, can only be fuUy 

 brought home to the diHgent student of such a List, 

 as it was strongly so to myself while engaged in the 

 laborious task of compilation. The List wiU appear in 

 smaU 4to with very large margin for notes and corrections. 

 The nomenclature there utiHzed is that which will be 

 used in aU my future writings. 



