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Remarks. — This beautiful Finch adds a genus and 

 species to the Australian List, and the distribution of 

 the species is so remarkable as to merit notice. First 

 described from the Caroline Islands, it next received a 

 name from Ternate, followed by its discovery at Lifu, 

 Loyalty Islands ; then it was found at the New Hebrides 

 and Solomon Archipelago ; later it was received from 

 Ruk, Bismark Archipelago, and odd specimens have 

 been procured in British New Guinea, while now it is 

 known to live in North Queensland. All the subspecies 

 are difficult to separate, little differentiation having yet 

 taken place in spite of the diverse localities. 



p. 301. Add ^GINTHA TEMPORALIS MACGILLIVRAYI, 



Black-tailed Red-browed Finch. Mathews, South Austr. 

 Ornith., Vol. I., pt. ii, p. 13, 1914; Claudie River, North 

 Queensland. 



p. 304. Add Neochmia photon albiventer, White- 

 bellied Crimson Finch. Mathews, loc. cit. ; Claudie 

 River, North Queensland. 



p. 239. In Appendix B, I included birds ascribed to 

 Australia not otherwise identified. Pucheran has noted 

 that some of these are Timor birds and therefore can 

 be eliminated from the Appendix : 



MelitJireptus flavicans Vieillot. 

 Turdus suerii Vieillot. 

 (Enanthe gutturalis Vieillot. 

 Platyrhynchos rufiventris Vieillot. 



MelitJireptus flavicans Vieillot is recognised by Pucheran 

 as Meliphaga reticulata Temminck, over which name, 

 of course, it has priority. This is not recognised by 

 Hellmayr, as (loc. cit., p. 51) he uses Stigmatops reticulata 

 based on Meliphaga reticulata Temminck. Turdus suerii 

 (recte sueurii) Vieillot is stated by Pucheran to have 

 come from Timor and is recognised as a juvenile Sylvia 

 leucophcea VieiUot. The latter species Pucheran doubt- 

 fully identifies with Lalage timoriensis S. MuUer. Neither 



