THE BIEDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
article specially prepared to obviate errors such as here perpetuated by 
Rothschild and Hartert would have indicated three errors in the quotation 
given by them. 
The page 589 did not occur until 1829 (Nov. 21), while the plate XV. was 
not published till the end of 1828 (Nov. 29), and Garnot is the spelling of the 
author’s name to me. This extraordinary error in connection with this 
author’s name has persisted in Rothschild and Hartert’s mind for many 
years, as it appears in the former’s Monogra'ph of the Paradiseidoe prepared 
many years ago. This suggests some lack of pare in connection with their 
work and does not convince observers as to the accuracy of their statements 
in other matters. 
In a preceding paper similar inaccuracies occur, while at the same time 
they comment upon the fact that I failed to note that I had previously 
designated the type locality of a bird. 
Again it might be observed that in the present paper they describe a new 
species of Tyto from a solitary specimen after having devoted four and a half 
pages of the Nov. Zool. as recently as June, 1913 (Vol. XX., pp. 280-284) to 
the extraordinary variation they supposed to occur in Australian forms of 
Tyto. I will deal with that article in its proper place shortly, but I here note 
it to show the inconsistency present in their work. The inaccurate statements 
they then made I will prove in full under the genus Tyto in this work. 
To revert to the Black Duck, when compared with Australian birds those 
from New Zealand average larger, so that a different name must be used. 
I therefore class all the Australian birds under the name proposed for the 
Western form, which I differentiated and which may yet need recognition. 
The bird figured and described was collected at Broome Hill, South- 
west Australia, on the 15th of September, 1906, by Mr. Tom Carter. 
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