THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
In the South Austr. Ornithologist, Vol. I., 1914, p. 13, Zietz recorded 
from Melville Island : “ Trichoglossus versicolor mellori (no Northern Territory 
specimens for comparison). Much darker green throughout the whole of the 
plumage, the red of the crown of the head is not so vivid, and also a 
smaller bird in comparison to specimens from the Fitzroy River, N.W. 
Australia. Wing 114; N.W.A. specimens av. 125.” 
Though this conclusion agreed to a certain extent with my differential 
characters, I am now compelled to discard all subspecies for more material. 
The increase since I proposed my forms has tended to show that the characters 
utilised are more or less individual, and I have not yet fixed on stable 
separative characters. 
I find North has written : “ This species appears to be subject to much 
variation in colour. The finest pair of skins in the Australian Museum 
Collection was obtained by Mr. E. J. Cairn, near Derby, North-western 
Australia.” 
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