BLACK-FACED WOOD-SWALLOW. 
In the Novit Zoo!., Vol. XXIII., pp. 96-111, April, 1916, appeared an 
article entitled “ Weiteres zur Avifauna von Timor, von C. E. Hellmayr ” 
and dated Sept. 15 th, 1914. 
Therein Hellmayr from examination of the type in Paris (previous 
to the war) corrected his error and acknowledged the Timor bird to be A. 
cinerens, but considered the Australian forms to be subspecies only. 
As all the Australian forms are of inland distribution and sharply 
separated geographically from the Timor forms, and as no intergradation 
occurs, I do not regard this as a scientific conclusion and separate the Australian 
forms as a distinct entity from the Timor form. 
The bird figured and described on p. 246, from Normanton, Gulf of 
Carpentaria, can be called 
Austrartamus melanops Normani, subsp. n. 
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