THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
the eyes, the former marks being bright yellow and the latter blood-red ; 
feet and legs black.” 
The bird figured and described is a male, collected by the late William 
Stalker, in Alexandra, Northern Territory, on July 9th, 1906. 
No complications as regards the nomination of the species occur, save 
that Reichenbach, when he proposed Spatherodia, utilised his own specific 
name inelanorhyricJmSf which he stated he had proposed in manuscript many 
years before. 
I separated the Northern form subspecificaUy, but in this present 
work I am regarding all the birds as constituting one species without any 
subspecies determinable with the present material. There can be little 
doubt however that the birds do slightly differ, and it will be noted that 
different observers vary the coloration of the bare parts. 
