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(3) Two males collected by the writer on Sei^tember 6th, 1916, 

 in The Gorge, near Port Germain, S.A., w\ the western side 

 of the Flinders Range, are still paler, and the yellowish-green 

 coloration is more extensive and a little more yellow in shade. 



(4) Three skins collected by myself at Geraldton, W.A., and 

 two skins in the "H. L. White Collection" from Moora W.A., 

 and labelled P. carteri, are identical and were described in my 

 paper loc. cit. as Geraldtoncnsis. The skins from Port Germain, 

 in S.A., are the nearest, but the Geraldton and Moora skins show 

 a decided increase in the extent and brightness of the yellowish- 

 green ; also the streaks on the throat extend in the W.A. skins 

 over the chest, and are almost pure yellow. This is easily the 

 yellowest form of the Forest series. 



Note. — Mathews sub-sp. Mellori and U'hitei are represented 

 by my No. 1. The type of Gould's Meliphaga penicillata prob- 

 ably corresponds wMth the skins I have marked No. 2. Rosinac, 

 Mathews, is probably the same as my two Port Germain birds, 

 that I have numbered 3. My own Geraldtonensis is at the head 

 of this group as being the most divergent from type and con- 

 taining the most yellow in its coloration of any of the forms that 

 come under my suggested Forest Division. Although this form 

 in its general characters evidently belongs to this division, there 

 is a slight wash of "buff" in the central tail feathers, this char- 

 acter being much more in evidence in those I have assigned to 

 the Desert Division. 



DESERT DIVISION. 



All the birds in this series are coloured with yellow, instead of 

 yellowish-green, and all show a wash of buff so characteristic 

 of Desert Birds. 



1. Two skins in the "H. L. White Collection" from East Mur- 

 chison and Lake Way, both females, are slightly darker on the 

 upper side than the more northern form of M. carteri, but I can- 

 not separate them from that sub-species. 



2. Six skins in the "H. L. White Collection," tw'o (a male and 

 female) from Carnarvan and Pt. Cloates respectively; one (a 

 male) from Lawson; three (both male and female) from Upper 

 Coongan. 



One skin from my own collection taken in ^August, 1911, at 

 Roebourne. All these seven skins are alike and are identical 

 with Campbell's type, which came from North-West Cape, half- 

 w^ay between the southern limit of Carnarvan and the northern 

 limit of Upper Coongan. These are all strikingly pale desert 

 forms, highly coloured with yellow and showing a buff tinge 

 modifying the yellow in places, and giving a desert tone to the 

 whole bird. 



3. In the "H. L. White Collection" is a nice series of North's 

 leilavalensis, from Oodnadatta, River Diamantina, Mt. Benstead 

 and Flinders River. These are all smaller birds than M. carteri 



