THE AUSTRAL AVIAN 

 RECORD. 



A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL DEVOTED PRIMARILY 

 TO THE STUDY OF THE AUSTRALIAN AVIFAUNA. 



Vol. I., No. 8. March 20th, 1913. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



New Subspecies of Birds from the Monte Bello 



Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 



Additional Species described by Gould from Nor- 

 folk, Lord Howe, and Philip Islands . . . . 182 



The Genus-name Meliphaga . . . . . . . . 184 



Additions ... to my Reference List . . . . 187 



New Genera . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 



NEW SUBSPECIES OF BIRDS FROM THE MONTE 

 BELLO ISLANDS, N.-W. A. 



By P. D. Montague. 



Eremiornis carteri assimilis, subsp. n. 



Island Desert-bird. 

 Differs from E. c. carteri North, in its smaller size, 

 larger bill, and in having the head darker reel dish-brown ; 

 the whole plumage is slightly darker. 



Wing 53-58 mm. 



Type, Hermite Island, Monte Bello Group, June, 1912. 



Anthus australis montebelli, subsp. 11. 



Monte Bello Pipit. 



Differs from A. a. tribulationis Mathews, in its smaller 



size and its very much paler coloration, as the dark 



centres of the feathers on the upper-surface are much 



reduced ; the spotting on the breast is almost obsolete. 



Wing 82-88 mm. 



Type, Hermite Island ; occurs throughout the group. 



