THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
specimen collected by Robert Brown; another specimen in Berlin had been 
named previously in MS., but its origin I do not know at present. The British 
bird received two or three more names about the same time, published a Uttle 
later, and then the bird became fairly well-known under Kuhl’s name, although 
it was known that Vieillot’s earlier name referred to the same bird. When 
Elliot published his Monograph of Paradise Birds, in which he included 
Bower-Birds, he revived Vieillot’s name, and this being accepted in Th 
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum has been used ever since. 
When I prepared my “Reference List” I separated the South Queensland 
form as 
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus dulcice. 
“ Differs from P. t. violaceus in its shorter wing—166 mm.; typical birds 
170-173 mm.” 
Almost simultaneously Campbell characterised as new;— 
“ Ptilonorhynchus minor. The discovery of a second but smaller species. 
The new bird is from that rich region the Herberton Range (the peculiar home 
of such novelties as Scenopoeetes and Prionodura) and is about half the bulk 
of its more southern representative, P. violaceus. Two mature males secured 
possess the same lustrous, deep, blue-black plumage as that of the larger Satin 
Bower-Bird. The following are the comparative dimensions in inches of the 
two birds: 
P. violaceus, length 13 ; wing 6-5, tail 5, tarsus 2, cuhnen 0-9. 
P. minor 10‘5 5’75 4 1-75 0*8.” 
I considered this was only of subspecific rank and it was so given in my 
1913 “List,” where two subspecies only were recorded and these can 
still be recognised. 
