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865. Megalurus alisteri alisteri subsp. n. 



Tawny Grass Bird. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 555 (pars). 



Head dull rufous, some of the feathers on the nape with hlaek centres ; 

 back ashv brown with biaclc streaks ; rump rnfoiis ; upper tail-coverts with black 

 centres ; tail uniform reddish brown ; quills brown, secondaries blackish brown 

 with buff edges ; eyebrow, chin, breast, and middle of abdomen white, sides of 

 body, flanks, and under tail-coverts reddish-brown ; cnlmen 15 mm., wing 69 mm., 

 tail lol mm., tarsns 22 mm. 



Type : Napier Broome Bay, North-West Australia, No. 5742. 



Range : North-West Australia, Northern Territory. 



8()(). Megalurus alisteri dulciei subsji. n. 



Queensland Tawny Grass Bird. 



Mathews, llaiullist No. 555 (pars). 



Differs from M. a. alisteri in having the hi'ad more strc,i,ki'd and a paler rum|i. 



Type : (jooktown, Queensland, No. 5895. 



Range : Queensland. 



867. Megalurus alisteri oweni subsp. n. 



Allied Tawny Grass Bird. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 555 (pars). 



Differs from M. a. dulciei in being darker above. 



Type : New Sonth Wales, No. 2161. 



Range : New South Wales. 



iV^o<«. — The name hitherto used for this bird has been M. galarfotes 

 Teraminck. Reference to the original figure and description shows this to be 

 inapplicable. The figure (Plan. Color. d'Ois. vol. i. 1 1" livr. j)l. 65. fig. 1. 1823) gives 

 a bird disagreeing entirely in general coloration with the Australian bird, and 

 especially in having the head striped distinctly with black, no white eyebrow, 

 and the tail spotted near the end with black and having a white tip. The 

 locality given by Temminck (New Holland) must therefore be erroneous, and I find 

 that Temminck's figure is almost certainly that of an African species of Cisticola, 

 and moreover agrees (|aite well willi the bird at iiresent known as C. eri/llira<ii'iii/s 

 Ruppell. 



Genus EBEMIOB.NIS. 



Eremiornh North, Vict. NaluraUst, vol. .xvii. p. 78. I'.IOO. 



Type (by mouotypy) : E. carteri North. 



868. Eremiornis carteri. 



Eremiornis carteri North, Vict. Naturalist vol. xvii. p. 79. 190(1; N.VV. Cape, North-West 

 Australia. 



Desert Bird. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 556. 

 Range : North-West Australia. 



