MALLEE PARROT. 
red frontal band, the light green coloration of the back, the yellowish green 
foreneck and breast and the rich yellow abdomen and lower breast. Specimens 
were sent by North to Sclater who exhibited it at the meeting of the British 
Ornithological Club after sending it to Count Salvadori for confirmation and 
then had it figured in the Ibis. 
When I prepared my “Reference List to the Birds of Australia,” I reduced 
inacgillivrayi to subspecific rank and proposed two new subspecies, admitting 
four subspecies as follows : 
Platycercus barnardi barnardi Vigors and Horsfield. South Queensland, 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
Platycercus barnardi whitei, subsp. n. 
Differs from P. C. barnardi in having the head, from the red forehead band 
to the yellow collar, uniform dark brown. 
Ulooloo, Flinders Range, South Australia. 
Platycercus barnardi augustus , subsp. n. 
Differs from P. b. whitei in having a green, not blue, back. 
Port Augusta, South Australia. 
Platycercus barnardi 'inacgillivrayi North. North Queensland.” 
I had to review the species for my List of the Birds of Australia , and I 
suppressed P. b. augustus as being a phase, seasonal or sexual, of P. b. whitei. 
I reinstated the genus name Barnardius, which I had formerly regarded as 
based solely on colour and therefore negligible, and recognised three sub- 
species only, thus : 
Barnardius barnardi barnardi (Vigors and Horsfield). 
Queensland : New South Wales, Victoria. 
Barnardius barnardi whitei Mathews. South Australia. 
Barnardius barnardi inacgillivrayi (North). Interior of 
Queensland. 
Recently my friend, Captain S. A. White, has re-named the Flinders 
Range form B. b. lindoi, so that this form has now three names. He alludes 
to its resemblance to the next species and also regards it as having similar 
habits. I may observe that this resemblance attracted me so much that 
when I was preparing my “Reference List,” I deliberated along time whether I 
should amalgamate the two species or not, and decided in favour of the latter 
view. I might add that the species really represent each other east and west 
of the Flinders Range which is the habitat of the intermediate form. It will 
be interesting to work out the range of the interior forms as it is possible they 
South 
if 
Mid- 
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