CREADION. 
chrysopterus Latham), in its longer bill, much stronger feet, longer wing and 
very long fan-shaped tail, and the presence of long pendulous wattles.” 
Recently, however, I have been eompelled to reject my own Dyotlornis 
in favom* of Creadion Vieillot, proposed as long ago as 1816 and commonly 
used for a New Zealand bird. Creadion was proposed for aU the wattled birds 
of the Southern seas, which had been placed in Merops, Sturnus and Corvus 
by his predecessor. Vieillot, however, recognised that these differed essentially 
and made two divisions in his fuller account, and when he gave a pictuie of 
one of his species in connection with his genus it was the Austi-alian bird he 
figured. Vigors and Horsfield, noting the confusion, proposed a new genus 
for the Austrahan birds, stating they did not know the New Zealand form. 
Lesson, however, determined that Anthochcera was based on the same group 
as Vieillot had diagnosed, and there can be on doubt that Lesson’s action was 
right. The matter is technically discussed in the Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. IV., No. 7, p. 169, March 7th, 1922. 
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