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855. Acrocephalus australis carterae sulisp. n. 



Pale Long-billed Reed Wren. 

 Matliews, Handlist No. .5.50 (pars). 



Differs from .1. a. (/oiilili in being mucli lighter above, especially on the head, 

 while the back is brownish where in that form it is olive-greeu. 

 Type: North-West Anstralia (Derby), No. 8681. 

 Range ; North-West Australia. 



Genns CISTICOLA. 



Cisticola Kaup, Skiza. Entw.-Gesch. Nat. Sysl. p. 119. 182y. 

 Type (by tantonymy) : C. cisticola (Temminck). 



856. Cisticola exilis exilis. 



Malurus exilis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. {Loml.) vol. xv. p. 223. 1826 : New South 

 Wales. 



Synonyms : 



Cj/sticola riificeps Gould, Synops. Binln Anstr. pt. iv. App. p. 4. 18.38 : New South Wales. 

 Cysticola isura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Land.) 1847. p. 32 : New South Wales. 



Grass Warbler. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 552 (pars). 



Range: New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Anstralia. 



857. Cisticola exilis mixta subsp. u. 



Little Grass Warbler. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 552 (pars). 



Differs from C. e. exilis in its smaller size (wing 41 mm.) and lighter coloration, 

 especially nnderneath. 



Type: Queensland, No. .5891. 

 Range : North Queensland. 



858. Cisticola exilis lineocapilla. 



Cysticnla linforupiUa Gould, Pmr. Zmil. Soc. (Luntl.) 1847. p. 1 : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 



Western Grass Warbler. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 652 (pars). 



Range : Northern Territory, North-West Australia. 



859. Cisticola exilis alexandrae snbsp. n. 



Pallid Grass Warbler. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 552 (pars). 



A pallid form scarcely comparable, the brown nf the typical form beins; 

 replaced by creamy buff and tlie dark edginjjs obsolete, the collar being only 

 indicated by a pale rufous shade, the under-surface wliite. 



Type : Northern Territory (Ale.xandra), No. 213'.). 



Range : Interior Northern Territory. 



