THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
effect of his note on nomenclature. It is useful, however, to have a good 
Lathamian name to replace the “ bad ” fiahelliformis, as a change to the lesser 
species would have been an unhappy one : it is quaint that North’s suggestion 
should ever have found favour. 
In 1912 I determined three subspecies as follows : 
C. rubricatus athertoni, 
Atherton, North Queensland. 
Smaller and darker in colour above and deeper below than the typical 
C. rubricatus rubricatus, 
New South Wales, 
and then 
C. rubricatus albani. 
South-west Australia. 
Smaller also, but paler above and below than the typical form. I pointed out 
that the differences were constant. 
These subspecies were maintained in my “ List of the Birds of Austraha,” 
published in 1913, and I still find them recognisable, I now propose a 
fourth ; 
CcLcomantis rubricatus eyrei subsp. n. 
as I see that the South Austrahan birds are darker in coloration than the 
typical series, though of the same size. The type is a male from Eyre’s 
Peninsula, South Austraha, collected on the 25th August, 1911. This species 
does not appear to occur outside Austraha and is the largest of the genus. 
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