THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
died May 6th, 1917. Memoir and Portrait in the Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pp. 129 
et seq ., 1918. Prepared the second editions of the Austr. Mus. Catalogues (q.v.) begun 
by Ramsay, then prepared Austr. Mus. Cat. No. 12, “ 1889 ” (q.v.), dealing with birds’ 
eggs, and then his great work on the same subject which appeared as Austr. Mus. Special 
Catalogue No. 1, 4to, 1901-14, Sydney. 
Birds of the Comity of Cumberland, 1898. 
Rep. Horn. Sci. Exped. Centr. Austr., Feb. 1896. 
Calamanthus isabellinus. 
Having previously described in the Ibis, 1895, July 1st, from the Expedition, Turnix 
leucogaster, Bhipidura albicauda, Xerophila nigricincta, Climacteris superciliosa , Ptilotis 
Jceartlandi and Spcithopterus. In the Ibis, 1904, p. 672, Oct., he named Malurus australis , 
and in the Ibis, 1912, Jan., p. 119, proposed Alcyone ramsayi, Neositta mortoni and 
Trichodere. 
Contributed papers to the Proceedings Linnean Society of New South Wales, in which 
Journal he described Posphila aurantiirostris (Vol. XXVII.) and Motacilla barnardi 
(Vol. XXX.). 
Would have nothing to do with the Emu, the official organ of the Royal Australasian 
Ornithologists’ Union, but published his notes in the Victorian Naturalist, the Agricul¬ 
tural Gazette of New South Wales and the Records of the Australian Museum. Never¬ 
theless in the Emu, Vol. VI., p. 78, Oct. 1906, appeared Platycercus melanoptera , 
attributed to North. 
In the Victorian Naturalist in addition to notes on eggs, etc., he named the new 
genus Eremiornis with E . carteri , Platycercus macgillivrayi , Corvus bennetti in Vol. XVII.; 
Malurus assimilis in Vol. XVIII.; Amytis modesta, Bhipidura intermedia , and Cala¬ 
manthus albiloris in Vol. XIX. ; Chalcophaps occidentalis in Vol. XXIV.; Psephotus 
cucullatus in Vol. XXV.; Acanthiza whitlocki in Vol. XXVI., and the new genus Lacu- 
stroica with L. whitei or inconspicua. 
In the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, in a series of articles on birds useful 
to agriculture (this must be explained, otherwise no one would guess -why scientific 
bird articles should appear in such a publication), he described Acanthiza mastersi 
(Vol. XII., 1901), the genus Oreoscopus (Vol. XVI., 1905), the genus Ashbyia and the 
name A. lovei , and Dacelo mclennani (Vol. XXQI., 1911). 
In the Records of the Australian Museum, in addition to notes on ornithology such 
as Malurus leucopterus Q. and G. and the record of Butastur teesa, he described as new 
Platycercus occidentalis (Vol. II.), Psopliodes crepitans lateralis (a rare early instance of 
a trinomial, the only one used b} r North) and Collyriocincla cerviniventris and Ptilotis 
leilavelensis in Vol. III., Pachycephala meridionalis and Pcephila neglecta in Vol. V. and 
Melithreptus magnirostris in Vol. VI. 
In the Australian Museum Special Catalogue No. 1, dealing with the Nests and Eggs 
of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania, he often pointed out subspecific 
differences and named seven only with binomial names, though carefully noting that 
these were only subspecies, as Gerygone pallida, Calamanthus diemenensis , Acanthiza 
albiventris, Acanthiza zietzi, Geobasileus a'ustralis in Vol. I., and Platycercus diemenensis 
and Pezoporus flaviventris in Vol. III. 
This work is of inestimable value, but shows one unfortunate feature, the neglect of 
contemporary records, because North did not like the recorder. Whether the records 
were worthy of belief or not was not a subject of discussion, but North simply ignored 
them. This matter was pointed out by H. L. White in the Emu, Vol. XV., pp. 57 et 
seq., July 1915, who gave list of omissions. The erratic publication of this Catalogue 
needs record. 
I., 
pp. 1-36, 
pis. A1 and Bl, 
issued June 11th, 1901 
n., 
37-120, 
Bn., ni., and iv. 
April 25th, 1902 
hi., 
121-201, 
M 3, 4 
April 27th, 1903 
IV., 
201-366, 
A5-8 and Bv.-vn. 
July 11th, 1904 
Title page and pp. 
i.-vn. October, 1904 
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