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873a. Acanthiza nana pygmea. 

 Fairy Tit. 



AcantJiiza pygmea Milligan, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 167. 

 1913; Mallee, Victoria. 



Range, Victoria (Mallee). 



908a. Acanthiza rosing, sp. n. 

 Allied Buff-rumped Tit. 



The type of Mr. North's Geobasileus australis, collected 

 at W^oodside, South Australia, by Mr. Edwin Ashby, 

 is now before me. The above new species was collected 

 by Captain S. A. White, about twenty miles north of 

 Adelaide. It differs from A. r. australis North, in being 

 much darker above, having no rufous on the fore-head, 

 and in having a very narrow buff rump ; the throat 

 has the feathers white, fringed with brown ; rest of under- 

 surface brown, lighter down the middle of the beUy. 



Type, collected twenty miles north of Adelaide, South 

 AustraUa. 



Range, South Australia. 



933a. Sericornis humilis flindersi. 

 Flinders Island Scrub- Wren. 



Sericornis flindersi White and Mellor, Emu, Vol. 

 XII., p. 165, 1913; Flinders Island. 



Range, Flinders Island. 



983a. Diaphorillas textilis merrotsyi. 

 Chestnut-mantled Grass-Wren. 



Amytornis merrotsyi Mellor, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 166, 

 1913 ; Lake Torrens, South Australia. 



Range, South Australia (Inland). 



985a. Diaphorillas striata rufa. 

 Rufous Grass -Wren. 



Amytornis rufa Campbell and Kershaw, Emu, Vol. XII., 

 p. 274, 1913 ; Northern Territory. 



Range, Northern Territory (Inland). 



964a. Malurus coronatus macgillivrayi, subsp. n. 

 Mauve-crowned Wren. 

 Differs from M. c. coronatus in having a bluish -mauve 



