. The Emu . ecember) ; possibly the dry season up north is bringingthem further south than usual. Their loud, raucous call can beheard for a considerable distance, especially when hundreds utterit at the same time. Insect life must be more plentiful than weusually realize when these hundreds, or we may say thousands,of birds can find sufficient food to eat.—S. J. Cecil Le Nomenclature. Now that the war has been happily ended, and the members ofthe Check-list Committee who are on active service will bereturning, the work of preparing the second edition of the OfficialCheck-list
. The Emu . ecember) ; possibly the dry season up north is bringingthem further south than usual. Their loud, raucous call can beheard for a considerable distance, especially when hundreds utterit at the same time. Insect life must be more plentiful than weusually realize when these hundreds, or we may say thousands,of birds can find sufficient food to eat.—S. J. Cecil Le Nomenclature. Now that the war has been happily ended, and the members ofthe Check-list Committee who are on active service will bereturning, the work of preparing the second edition of the OfficialCheck-list will be resumed. It will interest members to knowthat a strong committee of ornitliologists has already begunthe preparation of an authoritative list of the worlds birds. Meanwhile, the Council has confirmed its previous determina-tion that authors of papers should use the names of the Official Check-list, but may, if they so desire, add the name used inMathewss 1913 List. The Emu. Vol. XVIII. PLATE THE RED-CERED PIGEON. (jlohlcera ruhricrrn. The upper bird shows the red cere as in thebreeding season. Bir«ls of a feather. Vol. XVIII.] 1ST APRIL, 1919. [Part 4. A New Pigeon Recorded for Australia—the Red^ceredPigeon {Globicera rubricera). By J. A. Kershaw, , Curator, National Museum,Melbourne. In the Austral Avian Record (vol. ii., No. 5, 1914) Mr. G. recorded two additional species of Pigeons for of these he had previously recorded among his additions tothe Australian avifauna in his List of the Birds of x\ustralia under the name of Globicera pacifica lepida, but, after its com-parison with Cassins type of Carpophaga lepida in the collectionof the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, he describedit as a new sub-species, and gave it the name of Globicera pacificaqueenslandica. The other species recorded is Globicera rubricera lepida. Thiswas described by Cassin * in 1854, under the name of Carpophagalepida, from a single specime
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