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ouly we have received I'rom Cajie York, tlie iormer only from Eureka, BeLii, and 

 Alligator Rivers. 



(??, Behn River, E. Kiinberley. :!ii. v. 1902 (No. R. 471, 47^'). 



2 (?c?, South Alligator River, Aiiril, M-.iy l!iii3 (Nos. ]2'.i8, 129!)). 



2 (?<?, 1 ?, Eureka, Northern Territory, February 19U3(Nos. 1105, llUG, Il08). 



202. Poephila acuticauda (<ionl(l). 



Aiiiadimi urnlicoiiihi Oould, F.Z.S. IB'A'.>. p. 143 (N.W. coast of Australia). 



cj ?, Thompson's Springs, E. Kimberley, May and June 1902 (Nos. K. 408, 

 47IIJ. 



J ?, LennanI River, Derby, January 1002 rNos. 392, 393). 



?, Margaret River (crossing Hall's Creek Road), 20. iv. 19(r2 (No. R. 409). 



2 SS, Eureka, February 1903 (Nos. 1107, llo'.i). 



(?, 20 miles west of South Alligator River, 2. v. 1903 (No. 1297). 



203. Poephila gouldiae (Gould). 



Amadiiin yDiihlinr Gould. P.Z.S 1844. p. (N.W. Australia). 

 Pnejihila uiimbilis Des Alurs, Irmiogi: Orn. pi. iii. (18-15). 



It has now been proved beyond donbt that the red-lieaded and black-headed 

 " Gouldiau Finches," as well as the yellow-headed " F. a/mitiana," are merely 

 aberrations of one species. One might call it " dimorpliic," for, in fact, in most 

 cases the same individual retains its red or black head throughout life, and cases 

 in which the black head moults into a red one, or lice versa, arc apjiareutly rare. 

 The name of the species is Po(lj;t>/H7a yo«/a'/a^ .' This name was published iu 1844. 

 When Messrs. Hombron & Jaopiinot first figured this bird in tlieir Voi/oyv au 

 Pole Slid tliey did not bestow a specific name on it, but merely called it " I'oephile 

 admirable." It was not before 1845 that Des Murs printed the name P. mirabilis 

 and figured both the black and the red-headed varieties. The name of the species 

 is therefore clearly P. ijonhliue. 



S ad.. Eureka, Northern Territory, lo. i. 19o3 (No. lo23). Red-headed ! 



S ad., Thompson's Springs, E. Kimberley, 2. vi. 1902 (No. R. 41)7). Black- 

 headed ! 



?,20 miles west of South Alligator River, Northern Tcriitory 2. v. 1903 

 (No. 1296). 



? juv., Thompson's Springs, E. Kimberley, 2. vi. 1902 (No. R. 473). 



204. Bathilda ruficauda clarescens Hart. 



Hiithihhi rufiaiiida rlanscens Hart., Xui-. Zniil. 18;iy. p. Ail (Cape York). 



The typical larger and darker nijiraiida is from N. S. ^Vales and South <^)ueeus- 

 laud. B. r. clarescens is a mucli paler subs]iecies. 



3 tJcJ, 4 ? ? , 2 juv., AUigator River, November 1902, Septeiidicr 1903 (Nos. 

 812, 1626 to 1629, 1632, 1633, 1634, 1636). 



205. Munia pectoralis (fiould). 



Dimamla pectoralin Gould, B. Anslr. iii. pi. 95 (1848). 

 S ad.. Eureka, 7. i. 1903 (No. 1022). 



