No. 5.] THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 83 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO MY 

 LIST OF THE BIRDS OP AUSTRALIA. 



By G. M. Mathews. 



As must be anticipated by every student, a few corrections 

 to the nomenclature utilised in my most recent List 

 stiU keep cropping up ; this is a natural result of 

 progressive work : no additions or corrections would 

 indicate stagnation and hfelessness. Nevertheless these 

 are obviously becoming fewer, and the upheavals of 

 small account. A most unfortunate oversight has 

 caused the displacement of some famihar names, but 

 it is unHkely that such a case wiU occur again. I refer 

 to a paper by Pucheran entitled " Memoire sur les 

 types peu connus de Passereaux dentirostres de la 

 collection du Musee de Paris." This was the last of a 

 series of articles deaUng with the types of Cuvier, 

 Vieillot, and Lesson, and was published in the Archives 

 du Museum d'Histoire naturelle. Vol. VII., whereas 

 the others, which I had studied, appeared in the Revue 

 Mag. de Zool. Though this was a most important 

 paper to Austrahans, it was not utihsed in the preparation 

 of the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum 

 by authors deahng with Austrahan birds, though those 

 working on South American groups made full use of it.* 

 Study of the ornithological articles in the Dictionnaire 

 des Sciences NatureUes (Levrault) has revealed half a 

 dozen overlooked synonyms and one unpleasant altera- 

 tion, while reference to works on Austrahan exploration 

 has enabled the recognition of type locahties hitherto 

 unknown of some species, 



p. 9. TURNIX MACULOSA MELANOTA. 



In this Journal, Vol. I., p. 133, 1913, Stone and I 

 gave details of the loss of the type specimen and 



* Hellmayr has just published a memoir on the Birds of Timor 

 (Zool. von Timor Lief 1, 1914), and this paper seems to have escaped 

 his notice also, as he does not discuss the birds credited to Timor 

 in this account by Pucheran. 



