LOXIA FASCINANS. TORDUS VOLITANS. 
Inhabits various parts of New Holland, and is not uncommon; 
observed in company with another of the Grosbeak genus to hover 
frequently about two feet from the ground, making sudden darts at some¬ 
thing, which on more minute attention was found to be a sort of worm, 
which this bird, by a chirping note and tremulous motion of the wings, 
with the tail widely expanded, seemed to fascinate or entice out of its hole 
in the ground. The account adds that the bird itself is in its turn frequently 
fascinated by a snake. 
Loxia fascincms I consider indeterminable. 
Turdus volitans is the black and white Fantail and is the oldest name, and will 
replace Turdus leucophrys of the same author. 
* 
On p. iv. of the official Checklist, it is pointed out that there are three of 
Latham’s names and one other, rejected by me, viz. ( Cacomantis) flabellijormis, 
(Micrceca) fascinans, ( Origma ) rubricate/, are used, and Megalurus galactotes. 
This last name, as pointed out in the Emu, Vol. XXVI., p. 223, Jan., 1927, 
must be used for an African Gisticola. 
Of the others, fascinans will explain itself from this drawing. 
flabelliformis has a black or dark band on the breast; no Australian 
Cuckoo has this. 
rubricata. No mention is made of the characteristic grey throat and 
breast, and in fact no part of the description fits the Rock Warbler. Perhaps 
it may be as well to point out that the “ Watling drawings ” do not all repre¬ 
sent Australian birds, although that habitat is given. 
I have already given full details to prove that Dacelo novceguinece is older 
than Dacelo gigas. It was published in Strassburg, sent to Gottingen and 
reviewed, and the review was published on Nov. 15th, 1783, at least fifteen 
days before Boddaert signed the MS. preface to his work that was about to 
appear. 
Re the type designation of Creadion, our Committee consider that Vigors 
and Horsfield did this in 1827, in the Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Vol. XV., p. 321. 
These men, when introducing the genus Anthochcera for Merops carunculatus 
Latham say :— 
“ M. Vieillot has referred this bird to a new genua of his, which he names 
Creadion, and which he divides into two sections : one represented by the 
Sturnus carunculatus Gmel. the other by the bird before us. He places this 
genus in the vicinity of the Sturnidce ; uniting it with one or two forms, which 
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