648 Messrs. H. C. Robin son and W. S. Laverock on 
102. Chalcophaps chrysochlora (Wagl.) ; Salvad. t. c. 
p. 511. 
Three specimens from Cooktown and many from Cairns. 
Of Cooktown specimens Mr. Olive says that the species is 
common there only during the winter months, when it may 
be found feeding on the ground in parties of one, two, or 
three, but never more. 
Iris brown; feet and bill red. 
The Northern race of this widespread species has been 
separated as Ch. longirostris Gould; the differences in the 
size of the bill, however, are minute and apparently not 
very constant, when large series are available for comparison. 
The ashy bars on the back and rump seem somewhat more 
defined in birds from North Australia, as is also the case in 
specimens from Timor and the New Hebrides. 
103. *Syn(ecits australis (Lath.); Ogilvie Grant, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 247 (1893). 
Two pairs of adult birds from Cooktown belong to the 
smaller and greyer form, S. cervinus Gould. 
“ Iris brown ; feet and legs yellow ; bill horn-colour ” 
[Olive ). 
104. fExCALFACTORIA CHINENSIS LINEATA (Scop.) ; Ogilvie 
Grant, t. c. p. 253. 
A single female from Bellenden Ker. 
“ Scarce; generally in pairs in thick grass, from which 
they are only flushed with great difficulty. Iris reddish 
brown ; feet yellow ; bill black ” [Olive). 
105. Catheturus lath am i (J. E. Gray) ; Ogilvie Grant, 
t. c. p. 468; Le Souef, Ibis, 1899, pp. 14, 16. 
A fine series of this species in breeding and non-breeding 
plumage from Cooktown and Cairns. 
It is very abundant at Cooktown and, though scarce on 
Mount Sapphiri, is evidently extremely common on the lower 
spurs of Mount Bellenden Ker. 
Four males from Cooktown, shot in June and the latter 
part of September, show hardly any trace of the wattle at 
the back of the neck, which in one specimen from Mount 
Sapphiri, and in three others from Mount Bellenden Ker, shot 
