Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia Volume II Part 43

5. Scotophilus australis.

32. Phalangista vulpina.

38. Hepoona cookii, and varieties.

81. Hydromys chrysogaster.

These are all also found in Van Diemens' Land, and may therefore be considered as the most generally distributed of all the Australian animals. Both the Phalangista and the Hepoona are very variable in their colours, and may prove to comprise different species when we are enabled to examine a larger number of specimens from different localities.

APPENDIX D.

Mr. Gould, who is now engaged in a work upon the Ornithology of Australia, having been solicited to furnish a list of the Birds of the Western coast, has kindly forwarded the following enumeration of the species which have come under his notice as inhabiting that part of the country. The list, although necessarily incomplete, is the most perfect that has yet been published, and will doubtless be of considerable interest to the scientific as well as the general reader.

ORDER RAPTORES.

Aquila fucosa, Cuv.

Buteo melanosternon, Gould.

Haliaeetus canorus, Vig. and Horsf.

Pandion leucocephalus, Gould.

Falco hypoleucos, Gould.

Falco melanogenys, Gould.

Falco frontatus, Gould.

Ieracidea berigora, Gould.

Astur approximans, Vig. and Horsf.

Accipiter torquatus, Vig. and Horsf.

Milvus isurus, Gould.

Ela.n.u.s axillaris.

Circus affinis? Jard. and Selb.

Nyctale ? b.o.o.book, Gould.

Strix cyclops, Gould.

Strix delicatulus, Gould.

ORDER INSESSORES, Vig.

Aegotheles novae-hollandiae, Vig. and Horsf.

Podargus brachypterus, Gould.

Eurostopodus guttatus, Gould.

Halcyon sanctus, Vig. and Horsf.

Merops ornatus, Lath.

Hirundo pacifica ? Lath.

Collocalia ? leucosterna, Gould.

Cotyle pyrrhonota.

Cotyle familiaris, Gould.

Seisura volitans, Vig. and Horsf.

Microeca a.s.similis, Gould.

Rhipidura albiscapa, Gould.

Rhipidura isura, Gould. (North-West Coast.) Piezorhynchus nitidus, Gould. (North-West Coast.) Ceblepyris humeralis, Gould.

Graucalus melanops, Vig. and Horsf.

Artamus albovittatus, Vieill.

Artamus personatus, Gould.

Artamus cinereus, Vieill.

Artamus leucorhynchus, Vieill.

Falcunculus leucogaster, Gould.

Cracticus destructor.

Cracticus argenteus, Gould.

Gymnorhina tibicen ? G.R. Gray.

Strepera tibicen ?

Eopsaltria griseogularis, Gould.

Colluricincla rufiventris, Gould.

Colluricincla brunnea, Gould. (North-West Coast.) Oreoica gutturalis, Gould.

Pachycephala gutturalis, Vig. and Horsf.

Pachycephala pectoralis, Vig. and Horsf.

Dasyornis longirostris, Gould.

Salicaria ? longirostris ?

Petroica multicolor, Swains.

Petroica goodenovii, Jard. and Selb.

Petroica bicolor, Swains.

Zosterops chloronotus, Gould.

Ephthianura albifrons, Gould.

Acanthiza chrysorrhoea, Gould.

Acanthiza inornata, Gould.

Acanthiza (Like A. diemenensis, Gould.) Pyrrholaemus brunneus, Gould.

Gerygone brevirostris, Gould.*

Gerygone culicivorus, Gould.*

(* These birds have been characterised by me under the generic name of Psilopus; but that term having been previously employed in Entomology I propose to alter it to Gerygone.) Sericornis frontalis ? Gould.

Malurus elegans, Gould.

Malurus lamberti, Vig. and Horsf. (North-West Coast.) Malurus splendens, Gould.

Stipiturus malachurus, Less.

Calamanthus campestris, Gould.

Cinclorhamphus cruralis, Gould.

Cinclorhamphus rufescens, Gould.

Anthus australis ? Vig. and Horsf.

Pardalotus ornatus, Temm.

Pardalotus punctatus, Vieill.

Cinclosoma castanotus, Gould.

Dicaeum atrogaster, Less.

Amadina ? acuticauda, Gould. (North-West Coast.) Amadina ? pectoralis, Gould. (North-West Coast.) Estrilda bella.

Estrilda ? annulosa, Gould. (North-West Coast.) Grallina melanoleuca, Vieill.

Climacteris rufa, Gould.

Sittella melanocephala, Gould.

Chalcites lucidus, Less.

Cuculus cinereus, Vig. and Horsf.

Cuculus inornatus, Vig. and Horsf.

Eudynamys Orientalis ? Vig. and Horsf. (North-West Coast.) Centropus affinis, Gould.

Platycercus zonarius, Wagl.

Platycercus icterotis, Wagl.