THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
I have recorded under the Brown Flyeater the fact that the bird North called 
Gerygone pallida, and compared with his G. fusca, was the present species 
which I had called G. Icevigaster mould, and also that Campbell and Barnard 
had recorded it under North’s name, but suggested that if it was not a distinct 
species it seemed more closely allied to Icevigaster than to fusca, to which I 
had attached it as a subspecies. When Campbell reported upon specimens 
of G. Icevigaster from the Roper River he reiterated this, “it may be here 
suggested that if North’s pallida be not a separate species, it may be a 
subspecies of Icevigaster instead of fusca.” 
When I prepared my “ Reference List ” I included North’s pallida as a 
subspecies of fusca and proposed Gerygone Icevigaster mould from Cairns, North 
Queensland, writing : “ Differs from G. 1. mastersi in having the base of the 
tail-feathers grey, not black.” At the same time I regarded Weatherill’s 
Ps. cantator as a subspecies of Icevigaster and following Sharpe there placed 
also his mastersi. 
The detailed examination of all the specimens now available convinced 
me that it would be advisable to admit as separate species those I had 
previously lumped, and the present species whose relationships are superficially 
with levigaster and richmondi ( = fusca auct.) should at present be recognised. 
Its brown upper-surface and large bill recall levigaster, yet it also suggests 
richmondi in its general appearance. It is quite an isolated form : the colour 
of the iris is given as brown, red and orange-red. Detailed field observations 
are necessary as well as good series of skins from immature to adult accurately 
to define these species. 
It is possibly this species which Broadbent referred at one time to fusca, 
another time to mastersi, and then to culicivora. 
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