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Gould's memo. " that he had described it from Moreton 

 Bay, Queensland, noting that he had received specimens 

 since from the eastern and northern parts of Austraha." 

 Stokes (Discov. in Austr., Vol. II., p. 259, 1846) wrote : 

 " Mr. Bynoe (June 1841) was fortunate enough to 

 procure . . . one specimen of a bird of the same genus 

 as one of the Abrolhos, generally caUed a quail, but 

 with this difference, that it only lays four eggs, whereas 

 quails lay fourteen or fifteen. It is known to the 

 colonists as the Painted Quail ; and has been called 

 by Mr. Gould, from the specimen we got on Booby 

 Island, Hcemipodius melinatus." I have noted this 

 as Gould had described the bird three years before 

 Stokes's specimen was killed. 



p. XXV., Additions. Here I added the genus Glohicera 

 and doubtfully indicated as an Australian bird, which 

 I had recognised from North Queensland. 



Carpophaga* lepida Cassin. The bird I had was 

 certainly a subspecies of Glohicera pacifica (Gmelin) and 

 I sent it to Philadelphia for comparison with Cassin's 

 types there preserved. Mr. Stone returned it with the 

 comment that it was quite different from Cassin's birds 

 which Salvadori had correctly placed under the species 

 Glohicera ruhicera Bonaparte, and that the locality had 

 never been doubted. 



I therefore describe my Queensland bird as 



Globicera pacific a queenslandica, subsp. nov. 



Differs from G. p. pacifica in the darker grey of the 

 head and hind neck, which is much more restricted ; 

 and the coloration of the under-parts being vinous, 

 obscured by bluish, this colour becoming more marked 



* Though the genus name Carpophaga Selby, 1835, was shown to 

 be preoccupied by Carpophaga Billberg, 1828, six years ago (Richmond, 

 P. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXV., p. 596, 1908), such accurate workers 

 as Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XXI., 1914, p. 209, and HeUmayr, Zool. 

 Timor Avifamaa, Vol. I., 1914, pp. 86, 87, still persist in its usage, 

 though no reason for such use can be profitably urged. It may be 

 that this incorrect use is simply due to carelessness, but I do not wish 

 to urge this view. 



