THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Podargus strigoides cuvieri Vigors and Horsfield. Tasmania. 
Podargus strigoides rossi. 
Differ from P. s, strigoides in its darker (blackish) coloration and its smaller 
size : wing 255 mm. ; average wing 252-6 mm. Type : South Australia. 
North-west Victoria, South Australia. 
Podargus strigoides hrachypterus Gould. West Australia. 
P . macrorhynclius was proposed by Gould simultaneously as an alternative. 
Podargus strigoides phalcenoides (Gould). Northern Territory. 
Podargus strigoides muugi. 
Differs from P. s. phalcenoides in its darker coloration. Type : Mungi, 
North-west Austraha. 
Interior of North-west Australia. 
Podargus strigoides dendyi. 
Differs from P. s. phalcenoides in its smaller size : wing 218-25 mm. (wing of 
phalcenoides 233 mm.). Type : Derby, N.W.A. 
North-west Austraha (coast). 
Podargus strigoides gouldi (Masters). North Queensland. 
The acquisition of good material from Melville Island enabled me to 
separate as new {Austral Av. Pec., Vol. I., p. 37, April 2, 1912) — 
Podargus strigoides melvillensis. 
Differs from P. s. phalcenoides in its much smaller size ; wing 203 mm. 
Melville Island. 
For my “ Reference List ” I again criticised my augmented series and main- 
tained ten subspecies, conservatively attaching P. s, dendyi as a synonym of 
P. s. mungi. I have once again carefully studied the species, and I now maintain 
that even more subspecies are recognisable and that the birds are sedentary 
and very local. This fact was proven by the Victorian naturalists who 
investigated the birds of the Mallee country and who pomted out that the form 
found in the Mallee constantly laid a smaller egg and was constantly smaller, 
with other minor differences. When series are examined the subspecies are 
easily seen, and though this species is variable in coloration the series are 
distinctly separable. 
It may be pointed out that two distinct groups are very noticeable, the 
strigoides (typical) group, which ranges from South Queensland through New 
South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and South-west Australia, and the 
phalcenoides group which occupies the remainder of the northern continent. 
The latter group is the distinct smaller, more delicately marked form which 
was long regarded as a distinct species. However, intermediates occur among 
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