THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
I maintained these subspecies and nomination in my “ List of the Birds of 
Australia,” published in 1913, but again emendation is necessary. Collating 
the synonymy of the species I noted that Vigors and Horsfield observed : 
“ This bird was procured by Mr. Brown at Spencer’s Gulf, South Coast.” 
Reference to the Brown Manuscript, preserved in the British Museum (Natural 
History), confirms this statement, the exact locality and date being given as 
“ Spencer’s Gulf, Bay XII.,* Mch. 10, 1802.” This fact unfortunately 
necessitates a readjustment of names as follows : 
Psephotus varius varius Clark or Glarkona varia varia. South 
Australia, Yorke and Eyre’s Peninsulas. 
As Clark’s name was purely a substitute one for P. multicolor (Kuhl), it 
follows that the type locality must be that of the Kuhlian species, viz. Spencer’s 
Gulf, South Australia. As a synonjrm also must be added P. dulciei Mathews. 
Psephotus varius ethelce, subsp. n. or Clarkona varia ethelce; Central 
Australia. 
As pointed out by North and Captain White, the central bird is obviously 
paler in general coloration, with less and paler red on the abdomen. A peculiar 
feature would be the retention of the female red shoulder coloration in the 
males, as Captain White has noted. Type, a male collected by Capt. S. A. White, 
in the Macdonnell Ranges, on the 30th August, 1913. 
Psephotus varius orientalis, subsp. n. or Glarkona varia orientalis. 
South-west Queensland ; Interior New South Wales ; Mallee of 
Victoria ; and east South Australia. 
Type from Underbool, the figured bird, a male. No. 6268 in my collection. 
This is generally a brighter-coloured bird than the southern typical form, with 
deeper and more extreme red coloration on the abdomen. 
Psephotus varius exsul Mathews or Glarkona varia exsul. West 
Australia. 
When Ogilvie-Grant met with this subspecies he wrote (Ibis, 1910, p. 160) : 
“ Contrary to what has been written by Gould and others, the female is different 
from the male. The back and breast are greyish brown tinged with olive ; the 
band across the lesser wing coverts is dull scarlet, instead of yellow, the belly is 
pale green with scarcely a tinge of red, the under tail-coverts are pale green, 
instead of pale yellow.” He apparently never thought that the observed varia- 
tion might have been due to geographical causes, while nearly twenty years 
previously Ramsay had recorded the dull red shoulder band, etc., of the females. 
* At the head of the Gulf, on Eyre’s Peninsula. 
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