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By sanction of the Curator of the Austrahan Museum, Mr. 

 North exhibited the skins of the following Austrahan Finches: — 

 Stayanopleura guttata Shaw, and another variety of the same 

 species, for which the name S. xanthopi/gia would be fittingly 

 appropriate, were it not known that the late Mr. J. A. Thorpe 

 shot this bird out of a flock of about twenty, normally plumaged 

 individuals, on the 24th May, 1888, at Como, George's River, 

 N.S.W. This specimen has the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 bright chrome or golden-yellow, instead of rich crimson. — Bathilda 

 rubricanda Gould, from Rockhampton and Port Denison, Q., and 

 B. clarescens Hartert, from Derby, and the junction of the Fitz- 

 roy and Margaret Rivers, N.W. Australia. — Also specimens of 

 PoephiJa gouldue Gould, and P. mirahilis Des Murs, from 

 Northern Queensland; and the rare form, P. armitiana Ramsay, 

 from the Gulf District and Northern Territoiy. The latter 

 species, presented to the Trustees of the Australian Museum, in 

 September, 1906, by Mr. Percy Peir, Avas received by the donor 

 fi^om Port Darwin, when in the young stage, having the usual 

 light-coloured head of the young P. gouldue. and P. mir-abilis. 

 During the eighteen months Mr. Peir had this bird in his pos- 

 session, it moulted, assuming, much to his surprise, the chrome- 

 yellow fore-part of the head of P. armitiana. Although the red 

 and the yellow-headed foi'ms have had full specific appellations 

 bestowed on them, we now know, since we have gained a know- 

 ledge of their habits, that both are merely varieties of the black- 

 headed species, P. gouldioi. 



