. Nids et oeufs d'oiseaux trouvés se reproduisant en Australie et en Tasmanie . dans le plumage au mâle. Répartition — Australie du Nord-Ouest, territoire du Nord de l'Australie du Sud, Queensland, Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, ictoria. L'acquisition de Watlings Draw-s of Australian Birds, par les administrateurs du British Museum, a permis à Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, dans son volume d'intérêt Histoire des collections, oiseaux,*pour enfin régler la question des noms prioritaires accordés à Pacific Roller, orbetter connu Dollar-Bird. En referringto Watlings dessin de l'espèce actuelle.Dr. Remarques de Sharpe :— ce schéma est le
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. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . in plumage to the male. Distribution—North-western Australia, Northern Territory of South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, ictoria. HE acquisition of Watlings draw-s of Australian Birds, by theTrustees of the British Museum, has enabledDr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, in his interestingvolume History of the Collections, Birds, *to finally settle the question of priority ofnames bestowed on the Pacific Roller, orbetter known Dollar-bird. In referringto Watlings drawing of the present species.Dr. Sharpe remarks:— This drawing isthe type of Eurystomus pacificus, which namedefinitely takes precedence over the nameof australis of Swainson. In the Catalogueof Birds I was not certain as to the identityof Coracias pacifica of Latham, owing doubt-less to the description having been takenfrom a drawing. The late Mr. T. H. Bowyer-Bower andMr. E. J. Cairn obtained specimens in i886near Derby, in North-western Australia.Mr. G. A. Keartland procured a singlespecimen only near the Fitzroy River, in. ApsHE DOLLAR-riUi Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus. Bds., p. 120 (1906). KURYSTOMUS. 347 January 1897, as the birds were then all in the moult. Dr. Ernst Hartert has also recorded itfrom Derby in Novitates Zoologies; - also from Eureka and the South Alligator River, in theNorthern Territory of South Australia. The times of arrival of the Roller, or Dollar-bird, to the eastern portions of theAustralian Continent, are almost the same as those of the Bee-eater. In North-westernAustralia and Cape York it is found throughout the early winter months. On the HerbertRiver it arrives from the north at the latter end of September or early in October, andremains to breed. It is a visitant to Central Queensland in the latter month, and to the northernparts of New South Wales at precisely the same time as it is observed on the Herbert River, the latter end of September or beginning of October. In some seasons it is earlier, for on oneoccasion
