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 971. Stipiturus malachurus mallee. 



SUpituriix mallre Campbell, Emu vol. viii. p. 34. 1908 : Mallee District of Victoria. 



Mallee Emu Wren. 



Mathews, IhtmUist No. 610 (pars). 



Range : Victoria. 



972. Stipiturus malachurus littleri subsp. u, 



Tasmanian Ema Wren. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 610 (pars). 



Altogether darker than S. m. malachavm both above and below, and markedly 

 so on the head. 



Type : Tasmania, No. 4582. 

 Range : Tasmania. 



073. Stipiturus malachurus rothschildi snbsp. n. 



Westralian Emn Wren. 



Mathews, Ihtw/Ust No. 610 (pars). 



Differs from S. m. malachurus in being greyer above ; the head only slightly 

 reddened, with the black centres to the feathers always present ; the patch between 

 the eye and the ear-coverts is pronouncedly white-shafted ; the blue on the throat 

 darker, and with less white on the abdomen. 



Type : West Australia, No. 2372. 



Range : South-West Australia. 



974. Stipiturus malachurus ruficeps. 



StipHurm ruficeps Campbell, Vict. Naturalist, vol. xv. p. 116. 1890 ; Xorth-West Cape, North-West 

 Australia. 



Rufous-crowned Emu Wren. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 611. 

 Range : North- West Australia. 



Genus SFHEITUBA. 



Sphenura Lichtenstein, Verzn. Doubl. Mus. Berol. p. 40. 1823. 



Type (by orig. desig.) : S. brac/ti/ptera (Latham). 



975. Sphenura brachyptera. 



Turdus brucli jiplertis Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl. p. xliii. 18U1 : New South Wales. 



Synonyms : 

 Dasyoniis aiistrdlis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. {Lnjid.) vol. xv. p. 232. 1826 ; New 



South Wales. 

 Malurus pectoral is Stephens, iu Shaw's Geit. Zuol. vol. xiii. pt, ii. p. 224. 1826 : New South Wales. 



Bristle Bird. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 612. 



Range : New South Wales, Victoria. 



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