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1 Campbell, Some Additions to H. L. White Collection. 



Myzantha lutea. Yellow Miner. 



Female. Palest skin of this kind in the " H. L. White 

 Collection." (Wing 4I inches, or ^ inch shorter than typical 

 birds from Napier Broome Bay.) Like others from North-West 

 Cape, this Coongan bird comes nearest Mathews's wayensis, 

 evidently a more palhd form of lutea. The Great Sandy Desert, 

 in this case, appears to operate between the true lutea and 

 way exists. 



Ptilotis sonora. Singing Honey-eater. 



Gould, who was a good judge of species, stated that he had 

 " abundant evidence that the range of this species extends across 

 the entire continent of Austraha from east to west." If that be 

 correct, it is feared that many of Mathews's subs, notably mur- 

 chisoni, decipiens, rogersi, and cooperi, dissolve into one, which 

 may, in general, be a trifle brighter-coloured than, say, those from 

 Victoria or South Australia. 



More recently Mathews desires to shift the type locality 

 to Shark Bay. Scarcely will his new genus, Dorothina (pretty 

 name though it be), stand, although he has discovered that 

 Meliphaga (Lewin) is similar to the name Melophagits (Latrielle), 

 for an insect ! Why not retain the well-known name Ptilotis, 

 and put confusion out of court ? Whitlock collected skins on 

 Barrow Island as well as at Cossack, on the mainland. Both 

 examples are similar and typical. 



Ptilotis carteri. Carter Honey-eater. 



A pair {3 and ?) from the Coongan are typical specimens, and 

 probably more than a sub-species, as the R.A.O.U. " Check-list " 

 indicates. 



Ptilotis keartlandi. Keartland Honey-earter. 



Coongan or Marble Bar birds appear the same as those from 

 the more central (type) locality. Some Western individuals may 

 be paler in colour, but not paler than North's original figure.* 

 For instance, one (?) taken on the Coongan agrees with Mathews's 

 mtingi. However, Hartert recognizes the western birds as 

 keartlandi {Nov. Zool., xii., p. 233). 



Stigmatops ocularis. Brown Honey-eater. 



A review of a large series of this widely-distributed species 

 makes it appear that, at most, there are only three races— eastern 

 {ocularis), western {indistincta), and northern {rufescens, with which 

 Mathews's two other subs — perplexa and media — are apparently 

 synonymous). 



Myzomela nigra. Black Honey-eater. 



This Western race is smaller than the Eastern {ashbyi). 



Eplithianura tricolor. Tricoloured Bush-Chat. 



Paler-coloured than the Eastern bird {assimilis). Does either 



* " Horn Expedition — Zoology," pi. 6, 



