608 Mr. P. L. Sclater on Two 
As to the other two structural features upon which I have 
relied in classifying this group^ Coccystes entirely resembles 
Cuculus. 
I think that these statements add to the probability of 
there being some basis of truth in my attempted arrange- 
ment of the Cuculidse. 
XXXVIII. — Remarks on Two lately-described Australian 
Birds. -By P. L. Sclater. 
(Plates XIV. & XV.) 
Amongst the new or little-known Australian birds which I 
exhibited at the meeting of the British Ornithologists^ Club 
on the 19th of February last (see Bull. B. O. C. vol. xii. p. 50) 
were two of especial interest^ one of them being of a genus 
new to Australia, if not to science, and the other a- very fine 
new Parrakeet of the Platycercine group. Our excellent 
correspondent, Mr. A. J. North, C.M.Z.S., was very anxious 
that these novelties should be figured in 'The Ibis/ and 
we have great pleasure in being able to accede to his 
wishes. I take the opportunity of offering a few remarks 
on these two rare birds. 
1. Eremiornis carteri. (Plate XIV.) 
Eremiornis carteri North, Vict. Nat. xvii. p. 78 (Aug. 
1900) ; id. op. cit. p. 93 -, Sclater, Bull. B. O. U. xii. p. 51. 
This new and very interesting bird w^as discovered by 
Mr. Tom Carter, of Point Cloates, Onslow, West Australia, 
at North-west Cape, near Exmouth Gulf. Mr. Carter shot 
two of these •• birds, which he met with " on barren rocky- 
ranges in the dense Spinifex tufts,'''' and forwarded one of 
them to Mr. North, who gave a full description of it as 
above quoted. While we agree with Mr. North that this 
bird is quite distinct from every other known Australian 
form, we are not so sure that it was necessary to make a 
new generic name for it. It is certainly very closely allied 
to the genus Schoenicula of Blyth, of which two species 
are recognised — S. platyura of India and S. apicalis of Africa 
