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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
If it be absent, another problem would be added to the already complex one 
surrounding this bird. 
The forms that might be admitted would bear the names : 
Leucospiza cinerea cinerea VieiDot : Victoria ; New South Wales ; 
South Queensland. 
Leucospiza cinerea coolctowni Mathews : North Queensland. 
Lemospiza cinerea rohusta Zietz : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
The last two are not well defined, but on geographical grounds should 
be maintained until more material is received and the status fixed. It is a 
decided aid to workers to maintain as distinct, doubtful subspecies rather 
than sink them as synonyms ; their maintenance fixes them as sign-posts and 
guides to workers and obviates errors of duplicate nomination such as have 
commonly occurred in the past through their reduction to synonyms, and 
consequent non-consideration by even careful workers. 
The bird figured is a male, collected at Gracemere, Queensland, on the 
25th of February, 1881. 
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