SUPPLEMENT—BIRDS OF NORFOLK & LORD HOWE ISLANDS, ETC. 
are chiefly distinguished by fleshy processes from their heads, into a family 
under the name of Carunculati. As we consider our present group to have no 
relation to the Stumidce beyond the unimportant analogical one of having, in 
common with two or three species, carunculated appendages to the head, we 
have no hesitation in removing it from the genus Creadion ; leaving the Sturms 
carunculatus (with which species, however, we must confess that we are un¬ 
acquainted) to represent that group.” 
According to the Rules this is not “ type designation”. The Rule says 
“ The meaning of the expression ‘ select the type ’ is to be rigidly construed. 
Mention of a species as an illustration or example of a genus does not constitute 
a selection of a type.” 
In the “ Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia”, second edition, the 
following birds are recorded as not figured by me in my Birds of Australia, 
Page 21. Catharactci antarctica Lesson is said to be figured on pi. 122, and 
Catharacta lonnbergi is not marked as figured. This should read the other 
way round. I now figure antarctica. 
Page 32. Ixobrychus sinensis (Gmelin). The Catalogue of Birds in the British 
Museum, Vol. XXVI., p. 230, 1898 (pref. September 30th), records two 
skins, one presented by Sir D. Cooper and the other from the Salvin- 
Goodman collection. Neither of these records is of any scientific value. 
The occurrence of this bird in Australia is too doubtful and it should be 
removed from any future lists, otherwise confusion will arise. 
Page 35. Spatula clypeata (L.). I do not know of an Australian shot skin. 
Gould in his Handbook , Vol. II., p. 370, 1865, says he had seen a skin in 
Coxen’s possession, afterwards destroyed by vermin. Until this is con¬ 
firmed by an midoubted Australian shot specimen we should exclude it 
from our lists. 
Page 37. Butastur teesa (Franklin). No authentic record of this bird for 
Australia. I have given full information about a supposed Australian shot 
specimen in the Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., No. 5, p. 90, September 
24th, 1914, 
Page 47 . I consider adelaidce Gould a subspecies of Platycercus elegans Gmelin. 
Page 48. I consider semitorquatus (Q. & G.) a subspecies of Barnardm 
zonarius (Shaw). 
Page 65. Eopsaltria chrysorrhoa Gould, I figure in Vol. VIII., pi. 399, pt. 5, 
December 15th (Shaw). 
Page 70. Graucalus papuensis (Gmelin) by its subspecies hypoleucus Gould, 
and I figure it in Vol. IX., pi. 414, pt. 3, June 20th, 1921. 
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