626 Messrs. H. C. Robinson and W. S. Laverock on 
Southern species, is unfortunately untenable, being founded 
on the Green Grackle of Latham (Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. 
p. 129,1801), subsequently Latinized as Gracula viridis (Ind. 
Orn. Suppl. p. xxviii, 1801). On reading the original 
description, however, it is obvious that it really applies to 
the Australian Cat-bird, JEluroedus viridis, to which, indeed, 
it has been applied by Dr. Sharpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vi. 
p. 385), evidently forgetting that he had previously referred 
the same description to the bird we are now discussing. 
The proper name, then, for the present species is Mimeta 
sagittata , founded on the Striated Roller of Latham (Gen. 
Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 122, 1801), Latinized as Coracias sagittata 
(Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxvi, 1801). 
The specimen on which this name was founded passed into 
Lord Derby’s Collection, and is fortunately still in existence 
in the Liverpool Museum. 
27. Sphecotheres flaviventris Gould; Sharpe, t. c. 
p. 225. 
Many specimens from both Cooktown and Cairns, where 
it seems to be one of the commonest birds. 
“ Adult males have the iris brown ; bill black; feet pink ; 
and the bare skin round the eyes red. Females and young 
males : iris brown; feet slate; bill brownish; orbital skin 
slate” {Olive). 
The series of immature males that is before us affords 
very strong evidence that this species attains its adult 
plumage, partially at least, by direct colour-change in the 
feather, as many of the breast-feathers of the specimens 
before us have a marked yellow edging, whilst still retaining 
the brown shaft-stripe characteristic of the immature plumage. 
We have also received a clutch of two eggs obtained on 
December 30th in a high forest-tree 25 feet above the ground ; 
they are of a very pale brownish olive with a tinge of green, 
thickly spotted, more especially towards the smaller end, 
with medium-sized reddish-brown spots ; in shape they are a 
very pointed oval, almost pyriform. They measure : A, 30 x 
22'5 ; B, 29 X 23 mm. 
