New forms of Australian Birds. 
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5.— NEW FORMS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 
By Gregory Mathem'S, C.B.E. 
Communioated by L. (ilaiiert. 
Read 10th September, 1940 ; Published 12th February, 1942. 
While examining the collection in the Perth Museum with the Curator 
Mr. L. Glauert, to whom my thanks are here tendered, 1 found the folk -wing 
new subspecies. 
Colluricincia brunnea julietae sub. sp. nov. 
The form differs from typical birds in its smaller size, wing 116 mm. ; 
tail 95 ; culmen 20 ; tarsus 31. 
Type in the Perth Museum, No. A4004, a female collected by Mr. O. H. 
Lipfert on the Canning Stock Route, Sturt Creek, on 6th January, 1931. 
Typical birds measure wing 133 mm. ; tail 1 10 ; culmen 20 ; tarsus 31, 
Remarks : Apparently this smaller form inhabits the country far inland. 
The rather large series of o\w fifty skins of Melifhaga virescevs in tbe 
Perth Museum sh()ws that we must admit the subs].’e( ie^'., M. v. vn rcJALd ? 
and new forms. 
M. V. MCHCHISONl AND NKW FORMS. 
1. Meliphaga virescens glauerti sub. sp. nov. 
Differs from typical birds in being paler above and in having the stripes on 
the feathers on the breast not so noticeable. 
Type in the Perth Museum, No. 6912, a male, collected by '^h\ C. P. 
Conigrave at Ebano in October, 1904. 
Remarks : Six specimens examined. 
2. M. V. lipferti sub. sp. nov. 
Differs from other form of M. virescens in being distinctly })aler above 
and below. 
Type in the Perth Museum, N(t. A4077, a male, c(Jlected by Mr. O. Ff. 
Lipfert at Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route on 13th October, 1930. 
Remarks : Six specimens in the Perth Museum and six in x\delaide 
examined. Two skins from Marble Bar are considered identical. 
3. M. V. lewisi. 
Differs from M. v. lipferti in having the tliroat whiter and the feathers 
on the chest britwn, foi'ming an indistinct band ; the feathers on the under- 
surface being not so heavily streaked. 
Type in the Perth Museum, No. 7729, a male, collected liy Mr. John T. 
Tunny on Lewis Island, L)ampicr Archijjelago, on 27tlx June, 1901. 
Remarks : The birds from Barrow Island seem identical. 
Sericornis maeulata. 
Examination of the material in the Adelaide and Perth Museums shows 
that two new forms occur. 
