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these birds, and after comparing them with the specimens 

 in the Tring Museum had furnished him with the following 

 remarks : — 



(1) Rhipidura intermedia seems to be a fairly well-marked 

 subspecies of R. rufifrons, but nothing more. I cannot see 

 that the orange-rufous on the tail is less extended nor that 

 the black gular band is narrower, though, on the other hand, 

 the white area of the throat, is somewhat larger ! 



(2) Eopsaltria nana is quite a good species. The Tring 

 Museum contains examples of it from Queensland, procured 

 by Meek. 



(3) There can be no doubt that Malurus assimilis, 

 M. lamberti, and M. puicherrimus are distinct forms, which 

 can be easily recognized. 



(7) This Climacteris should be compared with the type of 

 C. weiskei, Reichenow (Orn. Monatsb. viii. p. 187, 1900), in 

 the British Museum. 



[I have made this comparison, and find that C. weiskei has 

 a rufous rump, and is a smaller form of C. pyrrhonota (see 

 Hellmayr, Das Tierr., Aves, Lief. 18, p. 225). But if, as 

 Mr. Campbell tells us, C. pyrrhonota is only the young of 

 C. scandens (Nest & Eggs Austr. B. p. 333), this bird may be 

 the adult form of C. weiskei. Further specimens from 

 Queensland are required to settle this point. — P. L. S.] 



(8) Melithreptus leucogenys seems to be hardly separable 

 from M. brevirostris. 



(9, 10) The three forms Pachycephala gutturalis, P. occi- 

 dentalis, and P. contempta are very distinct subspecies. I have 

 compared Mr. North's P. howensis with my P. contempta, 

 Bull. B. O. C. viii. p. xv (1898) (which name has several 

 years' priority), and find them identical, as was to be expected 

 from the locality. 



(11) Aphelocephala nigricincta. There is no example of 

 this species at Tring. 



Mr. F. J. Jackson forwarded the following communi- 

 cation : — 



