AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 197 



Other some distance to the northward of that locaUty, it being one of the 

 birds procured during Dr. Leichardt's expedition to Port Essington." 

 (Gould, /. c). 



This is a species -with which I am unacquainted, as the only specimen 

 in the Museum referred to it by the late Mr. G. R. Gray appears to be 

 only A. cinereus with a little more white on the under tail-coverts, possibly 

 a variable character. 



Mr. Ramsay gives the following localities : — " Gulf of Carpentaria ; 

 Rockingham Bay; Port Denison; Wide-Bay district." He appears to 

 regard it as a good species. 



12. Artamus melanops. 



Artamus melanops, Goiild, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 198; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 149 (1865) ; id. 

 B. Austr. foUo, Suppl. part v. (1869) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 289. no. 4283 (1869). 



A. similis A. cinereo sed minor : facie latius nigricante et subcaudalibus nigris angustius albo ter- 

 minatis distinguendus. 



Hab. Australia. 



Mr. Gould writes as follows in his original account of the species : — 

 " The specimen from which the above description was taken has been kindly 

 sent to me by Mr. S. White, of the Reed-beds, near Adelaide, South 

 Australia, who informs me that it was shot by him at St. a Becket's Pool, 

 lat. 28° 30', on the 23rd of August, 1863, and who, in the notes accompanying 

 it, says: — 'I have never seen this bird south. It collects at night, like 

 A. sordidus, and utters the same kind of call. It seems to be plentiful all over 

 the north country, and particularly about Chambers Creek and Mount 

 Margaret.' " 



Mr. Ramsay considers it to be confined to the " Interior, Victoria, and 

 South Australia." 



