THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Of the birds figured and described the one in fuU breeding-plumage was 
kiUed in Japan in April, 1907 ; and the one in winter-plumage at Point 
Torment, North-west Austrafia, on December 27th, 1910, by Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
In winter-plumage this species is scarcely separable from the typical 
P. minuta^ being very fittle paler ; in the summer-plumage however it is well 
differentiated, but stiff it can only be considered a well-marked subspecies, 
being the direct geographical representative of the former. 
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