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Throughout the subspecies virescens would displace 

 sonora while it would be best to add — 



Meliphaga virescens vibescens. 

 Shark's Bay Singing Honey-Eater, 



as I cannot synonymise with the Shark's Bay form 

 either the southern dark Broome Hi]] form or the interior 

 light East Murchison race. 



The South Austrahan form would retain Gould's 

 name being Meliphaga virescens sonora, but the synonym 

 Meliphaga vittata Bonaparte should be transferred to 

 the synonymy of M. v. virescens, as Bonaparte's name 

 was also given to a bird brought back by Peron and 

 Lesueur. 



p. 285. As a synonym of Manorina m. melanophrys 

 add — 



Cossyphus olivaceus Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Lev- 

 rault), Vol. XXIX., p. 268, 1823 : New South Wales. 



p. 299. Dr. Burton Cleland pomted out to me that 

 Stokes in his Discov. in Austral., Vol. II., 1846, p. 175, 

 states that the type of Emblema picta Gould was procured 

 on Depuch's Island, Mid- west Austraha. This necessi- 

 tates a rearrangement of the subspecific names, as I 

 arbitrarily selected Derby, North-west Australia, as a 

 suitable locahty for Gould's species. I now describe 

 the Roebuck Bay bird as — 



-f- Emblema picta clelandi, subsp. n. 



Western Painted Finch. 



Differs from E. p. picta in being much darker above, 

 the black of the under surface being deeper and the 

 red on the throat more extensive. 



Type, from Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia. 

 Range, North-west Australia. . 

 and restrict 



Emblema picta picta, Painted Finch, to Depuch's 

 Island, IMid-west Australia. 



