8 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. V. 



List, p. 312. 



~f- Craspedophora magnifica yorki, subsp. n. Cape York. 



Differs from C. p. claudia Mathews, in having tlie throat and 

 iipper-'breast less green and the featliers more pointed. 

 This is necessary, as alherti is preoccupied by Ptilornis 

 alherti Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. I, p. 105, 1869, 

 = Feb. 2, 1870 as synonym of C. magnificns. 



List p. 315. Add to synonymy of Neostrepera versicolor 



Barita griseus Quoy & Gaimard Frorieps Notizen Bd. 12, 



No. 253, col. 166, Dec. 1825 : Port Jackson, New South 



Wales. 



id., Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, Vol. 5, p. 484, 1825 (1826). 



id., Voy. de I'Uranie et la Physic Zool. Add p. 711, 

 June 14, 1826. 



List, p. 208. 



~^ Leachena crocea boweri subsp. n. 



Differs from L. crocea in its lighter upper-surface (olive- 

 brown ) and the yellow under-surface being not so pronounced. 

 The female differs from the female of crocea in having the 

 head, neck all round, and throat almost lacking any yello^^' 

 colour. Type : Fitzroy River, North-west AustraUa. 



Cerchneis unicolor Milligan. 



The following description was taken from the type, cf. 

 Mathews Birds of Australia, Vol. V., pt. 3, May 23rd, 1916, 

 plate 257 : — 



Adult male. — General colour above rich fawn, or deep 

 cimiamon rufous, including the liead, back, wings and tail ; 

 the feathers of the head with naiTow black shaft lines, which 

 •widen out on tlie hind neck and mantle, more broadl\' on the 

 scapulars and wing-coverts, where they become spear-shaped ; 

 the median and greater wing-coverts and innermost-secondaries 

 barred with black ; bastard-wing dark brown margined with 

 rufous ; primary-coverts dark brown spotted and margined 

 with rufous, more broadly at the tips ; primary- quills dark 



